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Chua Giok Ong vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

CHUA GIOK ONG, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-41689-90 | 1987-04-08

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The attempted conversion of two (2) checks is the gravamen of the felony which both the Manila Court of First Instance 1 and the Court of Appeals 2 adjudged had been committed by petitioner Chua Giok Ong. One check, in the amount of P635.00, was issued by William A. Greenwalt, Jr. in favor of Rattan Art. 3 The other, in the amount of P695.20, was issued by Tidewater Oil Company in favor of Shell Company of the Philippines. 4 Both these checks were sent to the respective payees by mail but were never received by either of them.

Somehow (it is not now certain precisely how this happened), the checks found...