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FEDERICO QUIZON, ET AL. vs. HON. JOSE L. BALTAZAR, ET AL.

FEDERICO QUIZON and PROFITISA QUIZON, petitioners, vs. HON. JOSE L. BALTAZAR, Municipal Judge of San Fernando, Pampanga; ELIODORO B. GUINTO, Assistant Provincial Fiscal, of Pampanga; and CECILIA SANGALANG, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-23779-80 | 1977-04-29

BARREDO, J.:

Petiion for certiorari and prohibition to declare null and void the orders of the Municipal Court of San Fernando, Pampanga, issued in Criminal Cases Nos. 4203, People vs. Federico Quizon and 4204, People vs. Profitisa Quizon, dated July 11 and August 17, 1964, respectively, denying petitioners' motion to quash the criminal complaints against them based on the ground of prescription of the offense of serious oral defamation of which they were charged, and to prohibit said court from proceeding further with the said criminal cases, except to dismiss the same.

On May 11, 1964, private respondent, Cecilia Sangalang, with the...