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Consolacion P. Mangila vs. Hon. Judge Jose T. Lantin, Et Al

CONSOLACION P. MANGILA, petitioner, vs. THE HON. JUDGE JOSE T. LANTIN, and THE PROVINCIAL FISCAL OF TARLAC, TARLAC, respondents.

G.R. No. L-24735 | 1969-10-31

D E C I S I O N 


SANCHEZ, J.: 

In this petition for certiorari and prohibition, we are asked to strike down respondent judge's order sustaining his jurisdiction to hear and determine a criminal case for serious slander in which petitioner is the accused. 

The present case has its beginning in a verified criminal complaint filed with the Fiscal's Office on October 8, 1963 by the spouses Naciensena Santos de Dazo and Mariano T. Dazo, charging petitioner Consolacion P. Mangila with serious slander. Two days thereafter, on October 10, 1963, Assistant Provincial Fiscal Fernando M. Bartolome, before whom the foregoing complaint was...