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Santos To, Pedro vs. Ernani Cruz-Pa?o, et al.

PEDRO SANTOS TO, petitioner, vs. HON. ERNANI CRUZ-PA?O, Presiding Judge, Court of First Instance of Rizal, Quezon City Branch XVIII, and JUAN Y. OCAMPO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-55130 | 1983-01-17

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

Petitioner was convicted by respondent judge of the Court of First Instance of Rizal (Quezon City Branch) of the crime of estafa for having issued a bouncing check for P5,000.00, and sentenced to an indeterminate penalty of from seven years and eight months of prision mayor as minimum, to nine years and four months of prision mayor, as maximum. 1 He appealed to the Court of Appeals which reduced the penalty to one year and one day of prision correccional as minimum, to one year and eight months as maximum. 2

Upon the Court of Appeals' decision becoming final, petitioner not having appealed therefrom, he...