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PEOPLE. Vs. Rosie Cuaresma

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. ROSIE CUARESMA and HON. JUDGE VICTORIANO B. DE LA CRUZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 67787 | 1989-04-18

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The annulment of the Order of respondent City Court Judge of Dumaguete City in Criminal Case No. 7238 1 ---- dismissing the information for oral defamation on the ground of prescription of the offense ---- is what is principally sought in the instant special civil action of certiorari instituted by the Second Assistant City Fiscal of Dumaguete in this Court.

Criminal Case No. 7238 above mentioned was commenced in respondent Judge's Court by an information filed on August 21, 1978 by an Assistant Fiscal of Dumaguete City. It charged Rosie Cuaresma with oral defamation consisting in the imputation of a crime...