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FAUSTINA CALLANTA vs. FELIPE VILLANUEVA

FAUSTINA CALLANTA, petitioner, vs. HON. FELIPE VILLANUEVA, City Judge, City Court of Dagupan City, CORNELIA JIMENEZ and PASTORA DAVID JIMENEZ, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-24646 & L-24674 | 1977-06-20

FERNANDO, J.:

The denial by respondent City Judge Felipe Villanueva of Dagupan City to grant the motions to quash the two complaints for grave oral defamation against petitioner gave rise to these suits for certiorari, the validity of the issuance of the warrants of arrest by respondent City Judge Felipe Villanueva of Dagupan City 1 being contested on the ground that it should have been the City Fiscal who should have conducted the preliminary examination. There was then, in the opinion of petitioner's counsel, a jurisdictional infirmity. From the very petition itself, however, it was shown that after such issuance of the warrants of...