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PEOPLE Vs. City Court, Branch Iii Of General Santos City, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioners, vs. THE CITY COURT, BRANCH III OF GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Presided over by the HONORABLE CITY JUDGE ANDRES O. LORENZO, ERMILINA COLLADO VDA. DE BUNTAWIG, ESBERTO GUANCO, ROMEO CARDONES, ERNESTO MAGTOLIS, ANGEL CARDONES, DAMIANO DESCUTIDO, ALDARICO LUBATON, LINDA TORIFIL, PALAVIO CALAVIR, RODOLFO MONTERO, ROMEO HERNAEZ, NENITA JALANDONI, DIONISIO NATIVIDAD, LINDA ROCHE, ERLINDA DARAR, DOROTEA ORTIGOZA, GRACE DESCUTIDO, ROGELIO DESCUTIDO, LUIS CARDONES, DEMETRIO GARGOLIS, EMMANUEL LAS PI?AS, ROMEO APPELLEELIDO, ALFREDO ORILLA, ANICETO SALAS, MANOLO MAGNO, RODRIGO ORILLA AND ROMEO MONTERO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-49019 | 1992-04-10

D E C I S I O N


MEDIALDEA, J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the order of the respondent City Court, Branch 3 of General Santos City which granted the motion to quash filed by private respondents.

The antecedent of the case are as follows:

On August 17, 1978, private respondents were charged before respondent court with violation of Presidential Decree No. 772 PENALIZING SQUATTING AND OTHER SIMILAR ACTS, in an information which reads:

"That on or about the year 1968 and continuously until the present, in the City of General Santos, Philippines and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named...