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PEOPLE vs. Miguel Mendez, Et, Al.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MIGUEL MENDEZ, ET, AL., defendants. MIGUEL MENDEZ and SEGUNDO GIANAN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-27348 | 1969-07-29

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

This appeal was forwarded 1 to us by the Court of Appeals for resolution as involving purely legal questions, principally as to whether due process was denied to the accused-appellants by the Justice of the Peace Court of Virac, Catanduanes, in a criminal case 2 wherein the latter, reacting to said accused-appellants' failure to appear and adduce evidence in their defense at a scheduled hearing, despite seasonable notice, and in view of previous repeated continuances, deemed the case submitted for decision after rejecting the defense counsels' last-minute motion for continuance on the ground...