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Generoso Esme?a, et al.vs Julian B. Pogoy, et al.

GENEROSO ESME?A and ALBERTO ALBA, petitioners, vs. JUDGE JULIAN B. POGOY, City Court of Cebu City, Branch III, PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES and RICARDO B. TABANAO, as Special Counsel, Office of the City Fiscal, Cebu City, respondents.

G.R. No. 54110 | 1981-02-20

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This case poses the issue of whether the revival of a grave coercion case, which was provisionally dismissed (after the accused had been arraigned) because of complainant's failure to appear at the trial, would place the accused in double jeopardy, considering their constitutional right to have a speedy trial.

Petitioners Generoso Esmeña and Alberto Alba and their co-accused, Genaro Alipio, Vicente Encabo and Bernardo Villamira were charged with grave coercion in the city court of Cebu City for having allegedly forced Reverend Father Tomas Tibudan of the Jaro Cathedral, Iloilo City to withdraw the sum...