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PEOPLE vs. Sergio Baladjay

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SERGIO BALADJAY, defendant-appellant.

G.R. Nos. L-26915-18 | 1982-03-30

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This is a case of double jeopardy. The issue is whether the trial court's order reinstating four criminal cases, which it had provisionally dismissed because of the delay in prosecuting them and because the fiscal was not ready when the cases were called for hearing, placed the accused in double jeopardy.

Four criminal cases were filed against Sergio Baladjay and others in the municipal court (now city courts) of Ozamiz City, to wit:

(1) Criminal Case No. 3890 for illegal possession of instruments for committing counterfeiting or falsification allegedly committed on December 6, 1954 and filed also on...