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Mayor Oscar De Los Reyes Vs Sandiganbayan And PEOPLE

MAYOR OSCAR DE LOS REYES, petitioner vs. SANDIGANBAYAN, THIRD DIVISION, and the PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 121215 | 1997-11-13

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

The significance of the minutes taken during the session of a local legislative assembly is the determinant issue in this present petition.

Petitioner, along with the two others, was charged with the crime of falsification of a public document, specifically Resolution No. 57-S-92 dated July 27, 1992 of the Municipal Council of Mariveles, Bataan. The complaint 1 alleged that the resolution, appropriating the amount of P8,500.00 for the payment of the terminal leave of two municipal employees, was anomalous for not having been approved by the said Council, as the minutes of the proceedings therein made no...