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Bienvenido Bernal, Jr. vs. Jocelyn Fernandez.

BIENVENIDO BERNAL, JR., Complainant, versus JOCELYN FERNANDEZ, Court Stenographer, Municipal Trial Court (MTC), Caba, La Union, Respondent.

A.M. No. P-05-2045 [Formely AM No. OCA IPI 03-1818-P] | 2005-07-29

THIRD DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 

CARPIO MORALES, J.: 

Jocelyn Fernandez, Court Stenographer of the Municipal Trial Court (MTC) of Caba, La Union, is charged, by Letter- Complaint dated August 27, 2003[1] of Bienvenido Bernal, Jr. (complainant) which was received on November 13, 2003 by the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA), of willful failure to pay just debt. 

Complainant details the facts that gave rise to the filing of the present complaint as follows, quoted verbatim:[2] 

Sometime in January 2003, Ms. Jocelyn C. Fernandez came to my store to get some grocery items on credit. I was then adamant to extend credit...