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Tolentino, Eduardo vs. Amante Q. Alconcel

EDUARDO TOLENTINO y SAMONTE, petitioner, vs. HON. AMANTE Q. ALCONCEL, Judge, Circuit Criminal Court, Sixth Judicial District, Manila, respondent.

G.R. No. L-63400 | 1983-03-18

D E C I S I O N


ESCOLIN, J.:

Challenged in this petition for certiorari is the order of respondent Judge Amante Q. Alconcel of the Circuit Criminal Court of Manila, in CCC VI-84[81], denying petitioner's application for probation under P.D. 968.

Petitioner was charged before the Circuit Criminal Court of Manila with violation of Section 4, Article II of Rep. Act No. 6425, otherwise known as the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972. Upon arraignment on September 4, 1981, petitioner entered a plea of not guilty.

On October 8, 1981, after the prosecution had presented part of its evidence, petitioner manifested his desire to change his plea of...