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Ricardo A. Llamado vs. Court of Appeals etal.

RICARDO A. LLAMADO, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and LEON GAW, respondents.

G.R. No. 84850 | 1989-06-29

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

Petitioner Ricardo A. Llamado was Treasurer of Pan Asia Finance Corporation. Together with Jacinto N. Pascual, Sr., President of the same corporation, petitioner Llamado was prosecuted for violation of Batas Pambansa Blg. 22 in Criminal Case No. 85-38653, Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 49. The two (2) had co-signed a postdated check payable to private respondent Leon Gaw in the amount of P186,500.00, which check was dishonored for lack of sufficient funds.

In a decision dated 10 March 1987, the trial court convicted the petitioner alone, since jurisdiction over the person of Pascual, who had...