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Wenceslao Rancap Lagumbay vs. Commission On Elections, Et Al.

WENCESLAO RANCAP LAGUMBAY, petitioner, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and CESAR CLIMACO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-25444 | 1966-01-31

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.: 

This petition prays for revision of an order of the Commission on Elections declining to reject the returns of certain precincts of some municipalities in Mindanao. The Constitution provides for review by this Court of the rulings of the said Commission. 

The matter being urgent, and having reached the conclusion that the returns of certain questioned precincts were "obviously manufactured" within the meaning of pertinent jurisprudence, particularly Mitchell vs. Stevens, 1 we issued on December 24, 1965, a short resolution upholding the Commission's power and duty to reject the returns of about...