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Tan, et al vs. People, et al

ANGELITO TAN, ALEX VILLAVERDE, JOSELITO TAN and GEORGE LELIS, petitioners, vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, HON. DELIA P. MEDINA, as Presiding Judge of Branch I, Court of First Instance of Quezon; JOSE J. PARENTELA, as the Municipal Judge of Sariaya, Quezon

G.R. No. L-47482 | 1978-07-21

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This case is about the jurisdiction of the municipal court over estafa cases where the amount of the fraud exceeds two hundred pesos.

On November 20, 1974 the four petitioners were charged with estafa in the municipal court of Sariaya, Quezon for having failed to return to the spouses Hilarion Abadejos and Zenaida Abadejos their Zenith television set valued at P2,375 which the petitioners allegedly bad undertaken to repair (Criminal Case No. 7055).

After the prosecution had presented its evidence, the four filed a demurrer to the evidence. The motion was denied. They then filed another motion to dismiss on...