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Ceferino Soriano vs Hon Adoracion Angeles and Ruel Garcia

CEFERINO A. SORIANO, petitioner, vs. HON. ADORACION C. ANGELES, in her capacity as Presiding Judge of the Caloocan City, Regional Trial Court, Branch CXXI, and RUEL GARCIA, respondents.

G.R. No. 109920 | 2000-08-31

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari to annul the decision rendered by the Regional Trial Court, Branch 121, Caloocan City, on March 15, 1993 in Criminal Case No. C-40740 which acquitted private respondent Ruel Garcia of direct assault.

The prosecution's evidence was as follows: Private respondent Ruel Garcia and his uncle, Pedro Garcia, were members of the Caloocan police. Shortly after midnight on November 7, 1991, they barged into the barangay hall of Barangay 56, Zone 5 in Caloocan City, looking for petitioner Ceferino A. Soriano, the barangay captain. Private respondent gave petitioner fist blows on the...