Supreme Court decision · Criminal Law

Caeg v. Santos

G.R. No. L-40044 · Promulgated March 10, 1975 · Ponente: Barredo

In brief

This case is about the dismissal of a petition challenging the inclusion of the petitioner in an amended information for homicide, as ordered by the Secretary of Justice.

Secretary of Justice, Provincial Fiscal, Amended Information, Supervision and Control, Dismissal

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Full text

SECOND DIVISION

G.R. No. L-40044 March 10, 1975

PABLO RAMOS CAEG petitioner,
vs.
HONORABLE VICENTE ABAD SANTOS, as Secretary of Justice and Honorable B. JOSE CASTILLO, as Provincial Fiscal of Rizal, respondents.

R E S O L U T I O N

BARREDO, J.:

Acting on the motion of the Solicitor General to reset the hearing of this case set for March 19, 1975 to a later date, and upon consideration of the answer of respondents wherein the filing of the amended information including petitioner as an accused in Criminal Case No. 10197 of the Court of First Instance of Rizal for homicide together with four other accused, despite the previous opinion of the investigating and reviewing fiscals to the contrary, is explained to be in accordance with law, said inclusion having been ordered by the Secretary of Justice by virtue of his powers of supervision and control over the work of fiscals as defined and discussed in Estrella vs. Orendain, 37 SCRA 640, the Court resolved to DISMISS the petition for lack of merit and to order the cancellation of the hearing set for March 19, 1975.

Fernando (Chairman), Antonio, Fernandez and Aquino, JJ., concur.1äwphï1.ñët