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People vs. Eduardo P. Caguioa

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. HON. EDUARDO P CAGUIOA; Judge, Court of First Instance of Bulacan, Branch VII, and PAQUITO YUPO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-38975 | 1980-01-17

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, C.J.:

It is not easy to make out a case of improvident exercise of authority on the part of a lower court when the assailed actuation was clearly inspired by a desire to adhere to the literal and explicit mandate of the Constitution. That is the difficulty confronting the prosecution when it filed this certiorari proceeding resulting from respondent Judge Eduardo P. Caguioa sustaining the objection of the defense to questions asked a witness based on an alleged extrajudicial admission by an accused, private respondent Paquito Yupo, during a police interrogation conducted on July 18, 1973, without his having been...