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Luz C. Onas vs. Sandiganbayan, etal.

LUZ C. O?AS, petitioner, vs. The SANDIGANBAYAN and the PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 85999 | 1989-10-02

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

This case calls for the retrospective application of a 1988 amendment to the 1985 Rules on Criminal Procedure, more particularly, Section 15, Rule 119, as revised, treating of demurrers to evidence.

Luz Oñas y Capangpangan stands accused of having malversed public funds in her possession by reason of her official position as Deputy Provincial and Municipal Treasurer of Montevista, Davao del Norte, under an information filed with the Sandiganbayan on September 1, 1987. 1 After Oñas, with the assistance of counsel de oficio, had entered a plea of innocence on arraignment, the State presented its...