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Solicitor General vs. Perpetua D. Coloma

SOLICITOR GENERAL, complainant, vs. HON. PERPETUA D. COLOMA, Presiding Judge, Br. CIX, RTC — Pasay City, respondent.

A.M. No. 84-3-886-0 | 1986-07-07

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J:

The Acting Collector of Customs of Manila and certain of his officers and employees

1) having initiated and caused the prosecution before the Regional Trial Court at Pasay City of a British subject (Shirley Cheng Lai Har) for a violation of Central Bank rules supposedly committed at the Manila International Airport on January 19, 1984, i.e., attempting to take out foreign currency from the Philippines without due authority; 1

2) having presented in evidence before the Court not only the testimony of the Customs employees who apprehended the tourist, or had otherwise taken material part in the case, but...