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Webb vs. De Leon [CONCURRING OPINION, FRANCISCO, J.]

HUBERT J. P. WEBB, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE RAUL E. DE LEON, the Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of ParaNaque, Branch 258, HONORABLE ZOSIMO V. ESCANO, the Presiding Judge of he Regional Trial Court of Para?aque, Branch 259, PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, ZENON L. DE GUIA, JOVENCITO ZU?O, LEONARDO GUIYAB, JR., ROBERTO LAO, PABLO FORMARAN, and NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, and HONORABLE AMELITA G. TOLENTINO, the Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court of Para?aque, Branch 274, respondents, LAURO VIZCONDE, intervenor.

G.R. No. 121234 | 1995-08-23

Separate Opinions 

FRANCISCO, J., concurring: 

The thrust of petitioners' arguments involve the validity and exercise of the prosecutory powers of the State. Maintaining their innocence, petitioners assert that the filing of an information and the issuance of warrants of arrest against them were without probable cause. Petitioners, in my considered view, failed to make a case to warrant the Court's interference. 

Preliminary investigation, unlike trial, is summary in nature, the purpose of which is merely to determine whether a crime has been committed and whether there is probable cause to believe that the accused is guilty...