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PEOPLE Vs. Tomas Moreno, Jr.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TOMAS MORENO, JR., accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 97408-09 | 1992-09-02

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

In two (2) criminal actions commenced in the Regional Trial Court of Pasig, Metro Manila, 1 docketed as Cases Numbered 1065-D and 1066-D, Tomas Moreno, Jr. was charged with the offenses, respectively, of illegal possession of marijuana in violation of Section 8, Article II of Republic Act No. 6425, and the unlawful sale, delivery, dispensation, transport or distribution to another of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) in violation of Section 15, Article III of the same act. Assisted by counsel de oficio, Moreno entered a plea of not guilty on arraignment. The two cases were thereafter tried jointly, it...