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RODOLFO BASILONIA, LEODEGARIO CATALAN AND JOHN BASILONIA, PETITIONERS, VS. HON. DELANO F. VLLLARUZ, ACTING IN HIS CAPACITY AS PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, ROXAS CITY, BRANCH 16, AND DIXON ROBLETE, RESPONDENTS.

RODOLFO BASILONIA, LEODEGARIO CATALAN AND JOHN BASILONIA, PETITIONERS, VS. HON. DELANO F. VLLLARUZ, ACTING IN HIS CAPACITY AS PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, ROXAS CITY, BRANCH 16, AND DIXON ROBLETE, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. Nos. 191370-71 | 2015-08-10

THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N
 
PERALTA, J.:
 
The lone issue for resolution in this petition for certiorari under Rule 65 of the 1997 Revised Rules of Civil Procedure (Rules) with prayer for the issuance of preliminary injunction and/or temporary restraining order is the applicability of Section 6, Rule 39 of the Rules in criminal cases. Specifically, does a trial court have jurisdiction to grant a motion for execution which was filed almost twenty (20) years after the date of entry of judgment? In his Orders dated December 3, 2009[1] and January 4, 2010,[2] respondent Judge Delano F. Vi11aruz of the...