People vs. Villar, Jr.

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. VICTOR VILLAR, JR. alias "JUN FRUTO", defendant, REYNALDO REPULLOSO, defendant-appellant, SENEN S. BURGOS, respondent.

G.R. No. L-34092 | 1972-07-29

R E S O L U T I O N

FERNANDO, J:

This is another one of those cases when a member of the bar, Senen S. Burgos, was by our resolution of June 5, 1972, required to explain his failure to file appellant's brief on time. Then on the twenty-third of that same month, his explanation was submitted to this Court, worded thus: "1. That on April 28, 1972, undersigned left for Oas, Albay to settle agrarian troubles involving the estate of his late father; 2. That on the same date, he gave all the papers of the above-entitled case together with the final draft of appellant's brief to his clerk-typist Mr. Jose Segundino with the instructions to type...