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Juan de Carlos vs CA & PEOPLE

JUAN DE CARLOS, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 103065 | 1999-08-16

D E C I S I O N

PURISIMA, J.:

At bar is a petition for review on certiorari under Rule 45 of the Revised Rules of Court to annul and set aside the decision of the Court of Appeals[1] which affirmed the decision of Branch 147 of the Regional Trial Court of Makati, convicting petitioner Juan de Carlos and two others (Sy It San and Mariano R. Bajarias) of estafa through falsification of public documents and sentencing them to an indeterminate penalty of eight (8) years and one (1) day of prision mayor, as minimum, to twenty (20) years of reclusion temporal, as maximum.

The antecedent facts are as follows:

Sy It San, proprietor of the...