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PEOPLE Vs. Felisa Te, Et Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff and appellant, vs. FELISA TE, ET AL., defendants and appellees.

G.R. No. L-11747 | 1960-03-24

D E C I S I O N


ENDENCIA, J.:

Appeal by the provincial fiscal against the order in Criminal Case No. 113 of the court of first instance of Batangas dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction.
This is a libel case commenced in the justice of the peace court of Balayan, Batangas, upon a complaint filed on March 4, 1955, by Edward Field, an American citizen working at Clark Airbase in Pampanga who gave his residence as 1357 Kalimbas Street, Santa Cruz, Manila. Said complaint is based on an alleged libelous article published in "Bagong Buhay," a Tagalog newspaper, in its issue of August 12, 1954. The defendants are Felisa Te, Ricardo...