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PEOPLE vs. Sotero Navarro

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FRANCISCO PERALTA, JR., (Accused) SOTERO NAVARRO, respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. L-36506 | 1983-04-28

D E C I S I O N


RELOVA, J.:

Appeal from the judgment dated August 8, 1968 of the Court of First Instance of Cebu, the dispositive portion of which was modified in an order, dated January 4, 1969, as follows:

"IN THE LIGHT OF ALL THE FOREGOING CONSIDERATIONS, the Court hereby finds and declares the Provincial Warden, Sotero Navarro, guilty of contempt of court, and hereby sentences him to pay a fine of P250.00; and since one of his acts which the Court finds to be contemptuous consists in the refusal to appear before this Court to explain why the prisoner Francisco Peralta, Jr., instead of being in jail, was actually at the Majestic...