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PEOPLE vs. Manuel A. Argel and Rolando Ventura

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HON. MANUEL A. ARGEL, Presiding Judge of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Caloocan City Branch XXXV, and ROLANDO VENTURA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-45975 | 1981-05-25

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J:

This case is about the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance of Rizal and the Court of Appeals over a criminal case decided by the city court of Caloocan City.

On September 30, 1975 Rolando Ventura was charged by an assistant fiscal in the Caloocan City court with frustrated qualified theft of a tin can of edible oil valued at five pesos, belonging to his employer, Plame Manufacturing Corporation (Criminal Case No. 102175).

After trial, the city court convicted Ventura of simple theft and imposed upon him a penalty of three months and one day of arresto mayor and ordered him to pay an...