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Cora Legados, etal. Vs. Doroteo De Guzman, etal.

CORA LEGADOS, represented by ROSA LEGADOS, and HON. JESUS ANGELES, petitioners, vs. HON. DOROTEO DE GUZMAN, Judge, CFI, Br. II, Zamboanga, VILMOR ICAO, represented by his mother, SOFIA L. ICAO, respondents.

G.R. No. 35825 | 1989-02-20

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Section 32 of Batas Pambansa Bilang 129, effective August 14, 1981, grants to Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts, and Municipal Circuit Trial Courts 1 "(e)xclusive original jurisdiction over all offenses punishable with imprisonment of not exceeding four years and two months, or a fine of not more than four thousand pesos, or both such fine and imprisonment, regardless of other imposable accessory or other penalties, including the civil liability arising from such offenses or predicated thereon, irrespective of kind, nature, value, or amount thereof." 2

The proviso altered and superseded the...