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PEOPLE vs Hon Judge Pedro Navarro CFI Br 2 Pasig & Jaime Catuday

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. THE HON. JUDGE PEDRO C. NAVARRO, Presiding Judge of the Court of First Instance of Pasig, Rizal, Branch II, and JAIME CATUDAY, respondents.

G.R. No. L-38453-54 | 1975-03-25

R E S O L U T I O N


FERNANDEZ, J:

This is a petition by the State for certiorari to annul the joint decision of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, insofar as it acquits Jaime Catuday of the charge of light threat. The ground alleged is that the case for light threat was never tried in the lower court.

On March 6, 1968, respondent Catuday was charged in the Municipal Court of Makati, Rizal, with the crime of light threat allegedly committed against Henry Dioquino (Criminal Case No. 12846). Almost a year later, or on February 3, 1969, and while the light threat case was still pending, he was charged in the same court, with a different...