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Virginia Prado vs. People

VIRGINIA B. PRADO, petitioner, vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES and THE HON. RAFAEL SISON, Presiding Judge of the Court of First Instance of Manila, Branch XXVII, respondents.

G.R. No. L-37652 | 1984-12-26

D E C I S I O N

MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Whether or not a pending civil suit for annulment of marriage constitutes a prejudicial question in a Bigamy Case is the issue involved in this Petition for Certiorari & Prohibition.

On August 5, 1971, an Information was filed with the then Court of First Instance of Manila, Branch XXVII, docketed as Criminal Case No. 5877 (the Bigamy Case) charging petitioner Virginia B. Prado with the crime of Bigamy, committed as follows:

"That on or about the 17th day of October 1969, in Saigon, South Vietnam, at the Philippine Embassy which is an extension of Philippine Sovereignty and therefore within the...