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John Philip Guevarra vs. Ignacio Almodovar

JOHN PHILIP GUEVARRA, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE IGNACIO ALMODOVAR, respondent.

G.R. No. 75256 | 1989-01-26

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J.:

Presented before Us is a special civil action for certiorari against the Honorable Judge Ignacio Almodovar of the City Court of Legaspi, Branch I, Legaspi City, raising beautiful questions of law which We are tasked to resolve, We impleaded the People of the Philippines as party respondents herein a resolution dated 17 September 1986 (p. 41, Rollo).

The relevant facts gathered from the records are as follows:

Petitioner John Philip Guevarra, then 11 years old, was playing with his bestfriend Teodoro Almine, Jr. and three other children in their backyard in the morning of 29 October 1984. They were...