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Spouses Leoncio Mejares, et al. vs Juan Y. Reyes, et al.

SPOUSES LEONCIO MEJARES and EPIFANIA LARUMBE, petitioners, vs. HON. JUAN Y. REYES, in his official capacity as Presiding Judge, RTC-Cebu, Branch XIV, and MANUEL ADARNA, respondents.

G.R. No. 66555 | 1996-03-07

PANGANIBAN, J.:


May a person who was initially allowed to build his house on a piece of agricultural land not belonging to him beheld criminally liable for violation of the Anti-Squatting Law (P.D. 772) for refusing to vacate said property despite the landowner's subsequent demand for him to leave as the latter needed the land himself? This is the main issue resolved in this Petition for certiorari to set aside a judgment of conviction rendered by the Regional Trial Court of Cebu, Branch XIV, in Criminal Case No. CU-4971 dated December 10, 1982.

The case was transferred by the Second Division to the Third Division on October 23, 1995....