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People vs. Calo, et al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES and MARIANO CORVERA, JR., petitioners, vs. TRANQUILINO CALO, JR., BELLARMINO ALLOCOD and HON. NICOLAS LAPEÑA, JR., HON. EMETERIO C. CUI and HON. JUSTO P. TORRES, JR., all Justices of the Court of Appeals, Special Sixth Division, respondents.

G.R. No. 88531 | 1990-06-18

D E C I S I O N


BIDIN, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari with prayer for a restraining order seeking to set aside the decision, dated May 16, 1989 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. No. 17142, affirming the order dated February 24, 1989 of respondent Judge Jose C. Adao issued in Criminal Case No. 3464, entitled People vs. Pablo Macapas, Atty. Tranquilino Calo, Jr. and Bellarmino Allocod for murder, granting bail to accused-private respondents therein.

The antecedent facts are as follows:

On March 10, 1988, Mariano Corvera, Sr. (father of private petitioner), was gunned down inside the courtroom of the RTC of Butuan City, Br. II. The...