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Cresencia L. Tan Vs. Sandiganbayan, Et Al.

CRESENCIA L. TAN, petitioner, vs. THE SANDIGANBAYAN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. Nos. 88475-96 | 1993-08-05

D E C I S I O N


MELO, J.:

Petitioner Cresencia L. Tan assails the joint decision of the Sandiganbayan dated May 30, 1989 (pp. 16-117, Rollo), finding her guilty of 22 counts of Estafa Through Falsification of Public Documents and sentencing her to suffer 22 separate jail terms, ranging from 4 years, 2 months, and 1 day of prision correccional, in the minimum, to 10 years of prision mayor, maximum.

Forty-six cases were filed by the then Tanodbayan charging certain officials and employees of the then Ministry of Public Highways of Region VII and of the Siquijor Highway Engineering District (SHED) Office and certain private...