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PEOPLE vs. Alberto V. Seneris, et al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioners, vs. HON. ALBERTO V. SENERIS, As District Judge, Court of First Instance, Branch II, Sixteenth Judicial District, Zamboanga City and PILLAR ANGELES DE PIMENTEL, respondents.

G.R. No. L-48883 | 1980-08-06

D E C I S I O N


MAKASIAR, J.:

The legal issue posed in this special civil action for certiorari, with prayer for a writ of preliminary injunction, spawned by the August 4, 1978 order of respondent judge in Criminal Case No. 750 for parricide against therein accused Pilar Angeles de Pimentel, hereinafter referred to as private respondent, is the admissibility in evidence of the testimony of a prosecution witness in the said criminal case who dies before completion of his cross-examination. That issue is crucial to the fate of private respondent, considering that the deceased prosecution witness ". . . is the most vital and the only...