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PEOPLE vs. Regino T. Veridiano II

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner-appellant, vs. JUDGE REGINO T. VERIDIANO II of the Court of First Instance of Zambales, Olongapo City Branch I and BRIAN L. MOLLY, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. 57540 | 1982-03-26

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This case is about the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance over a city court's decision convicting the accused of estafa involving the amount of six thousand pesos.

The city court of Olongapo City in its decision dated February 27, 1981 in Criminal Case No. 1416-80 convicted of estafa Brian L. Molly, a serviceman in the United States Navy telecommunications center at Subic Bay, and sentenced him to suffer imprisonment of one year and one day of arresto mayor (should be prision correccional and should be one year only if the penalty is not indeterminate) and to indemnify the offended party...