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Garcia, et al. vs. Domingo, et al.

HON. GREGORIO N. GARCIA City Court of Manila, and FRANCISCO LORENZANA, petitioners, vs. HON. FELIX DOMINGO, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Manila, EDGARDO CALO and SIMEON CARBONNEL, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30104 | 1973-07-25

R E S O L U T I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The pivotal question in this petition for certiorari and prohibition, one which thus far has remained unresolved, is the meaning to be accorded the constitutional right to public trial. 1 More specifically, did respondent Judge commit a grave abuse of discretion in stigmatizing as violative of such a guarantee the holding of the trial of the other respondents 2 inside the chambers of city court Judge Gregorio Garcia named as petitioner. 3 That was done in the order now impugned in this suit, although such a procedure had been agreed to beforehand by the other respondents as defendants, the hearings have...