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PEOPLE vs. Orcullo, Antonio A. , et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff, vs. HON. ANTONIO A. ORCULLO, as Acting City Judge of Cagayan de Oro City, and VENIDA PERALTA alias EDAT PERALTA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-57103 | 1982-01-30

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDEZ, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari filed by the City Fiscal and Assistant City Fiscal of Cagayan de Oro City praying that the order of the respondent Judge, Hon. Antonio A. Orcullo, dismissing Criminal Case No. 40117 be set aside and that said case be ordered reinstated and tried on the merits.

The petition alleges that on September 4, 1978, a special counsel in the Office of the City Fiscal of Cagayan de Oro City filed an information with the City Court of Cagayan de Oro, Branch I, charging the respondent Venida Peralta alias Edat Peralta with oral defamation committed as follows:

"That on or about...