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Garcia vs. Court of Appeals

ARSENIA B. GARCIA, PETITIONER, VS. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 157171 | 2006-03-14

THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
QUISUMBING, J.: 
 
This petition seeks the review of the judgment of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR No. 24547[1] that affirmed the conviction of petitioner by the Regional Trial Court[2] of Alaminos City, Pangasinan, Branch 54, for violation of Section 27(b) of Republic Act No. 6646.[3]

Based on the complaint-affidavit of Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr., who ran in the 1995 senatorial elections, an information dated March 30, 1998, was filed in the Regional Trial Court of Alaminos, charging Herminio R. Romero, Renato R. Viray, Rachel Palisoc and Francisca de Vera, and...