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Martinez vs PEOPLE

TEOFILO MARTINEZ, petitioner, vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. 132852 | 2000-05-31

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari under Rule 65, erroneously filed as a petition for review on certiorari under Rule 45. But this procedural infirmity notwithstanding, we have decided to give it due course to resolve the question whether the Court of Appeals gravely abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to appeal as a pauper litigant.1 [Rollo, p. 5.]

The antecedents: Petitioner was accused of homicide in Crim. Case No. 5753 before the Regional Trial Court of Butuan City.2 [The case was raffled to RTC-Br. 4, Butuan City.] During the hearing on 23 June 1994 petitioner represented by Atty....