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Arturo Del Pozo, etal vs. Alfonso Penaco

ARTURO DEL POZO, DOMINADOR B. BORJE, EUGENIO LAMBIQUIT and JUALAMBIQUIT, petitioners, vs. HON. ALFONSO PENACO, City Judge, Branch 1, Ozamiz City, respondent.

G.R. No. L-48302 | 1988-11-23

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

In this special civil action of certiorari, the crucial question is whether or not the petitioners ---- accused in a criminal case for falsification of public document ---- were denied due process when the respondent City Court Judge refused to heed their repeated pleas for the postponement of the trial pending resolution by this Court of a petition for said Judge's inhibition, the Judge having instead ultimately pronounced said motions for postponement to be dilatory, and declared the case submitted for decision without the defense having completed presentation of its evidence, and thereafter promulgated...