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Bara Lidasan vs. Commission On Elections (COMELEC) 21 SCRA 496

BARA LIDASAN, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, respondent.

G.R. No. L-28089 | 1967-10-25

D E C I S I O N
 
 
SANCHEZ, J.:
 
The question initially presented to the Commission on Elections 1 is this: Is Republic Act 4790, which is entitled "An Act Creating the Municipality of Dianaton in the Province of Lanao del Sur," but which includes barrios located in another province - Cotabato - to be spared from attack planted upon the constitutional mandate that "No bill which may be enacted into law shall embrace more than one subject which shall be expressed in the title of the bill? " Comelec's answer is in the affirmative. Offshoot is the present original petition for certiorari and prohibition.
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