FACTS: At about 9:00 in the evening of January 27, 1996, accused Armando Gemoya, Ronilo Tionko, Rolly Tionko and Candelario Aliazar, armed with pipe, wood and an improvised bow and arrow made of nail with feathers in the end, proceeded to the house of the Alferezes, which was along the road in front of the… Read More PEOPLE v. GEMOYA G.R. No. 132633 October 4, 2000 Conspiracy
FACTS: Petitioner is engaged in the business of transportation and the franchise owner of a Ceres Bulilit bus with Plate No. T-0604-1348. Respondent’s husband, Quintin Catubig, Jr. (Catubig), was driving a motorcycle on his way home from Dumaguete City with his employee, Teddy Emperado. While approaching a curve, Catubig tried to overtake a slow moving… Read More VALLACAR TRANSIT, INC. v. JOCELYN CATUBIG G.R. No. 175512 May 30, 2011 Verification, Certification Against Forum Shopping
2017 Bar VII. Bernardo was enraged by his conviction for robbery by Judge Samsonite despite insufficient evidence Pending his appeal, Bernardo escaped in order to get even with Judge Samsonite. Bernardo learned that the Judge regularly slept in his mistress’ house every weekend. Thus, he waited for the Judge to arrive on Saturday evening at… Read More Bar Q & A and Recent Jurisprudence on Direct Assault, Direct Assault with Murder, and Direct Assault with Attempted Murder
PEOPLE VS. LUMAYA March 2018 Under varied field conditions, strict compliance with the requirements of Sec. 21, Art. II of R.A. No. 9165 may not always be possible; the IRR of R.A. No. 9165 which is now crystallized into statutory law with the passage of R.A. No. 10640 provides that the said inventory and photography… Read More Dangerous Drugs Cases resolved following the amendment of RA 9165 by RA 10640
FACTS: In its petition in the lower court, the Philippine Musicians Guild (the Guild), a duly registered legitimate labor organization, alleged that LVN Pictures, Inc., Sampaguita Pictures, Inc., and Premiere Productions, Inc. are corporations engaged in the making of motion pictures and in the processing and distribution thereof. The Guild likewise alleged that said companies… Read More LVN Pictures v. Philippine Musicians Guild G.R. No. L-12582 January 28, 1961 Control Test, Employer-Employee Relationship
FACTS: In 1978, then President Ferdinand Marcos issued Proc. No. 1716 reserving for Municipal Government Center Site Purposes certain parcels of land of the public domain located in San Juan, Metro Manila. In 1986, President Corazon Aquino took the reigns of power under a revolutionary government. On March 24, 1986, she issued her historic Proclamation… Read More Municipality of San Juan v. CA G.R. No. 125183 September 29, 1997 Presumption of Validity of a Law
FACTS: Petitioners filed five separate Complaints for accion publiciana and/or recovery of possession against herein respondents and a certain Reynaldo Peralta. The suits, which were subsequently consolidated. Petitioners uniformly alleged in the said Complaints that: they are owners of three (3) parcels of land they inherited the lots from their predecessor-in-interest, Alfonso Yusingco; they were… Read More Heirs Of Alfonso Yusingco v. Busilak G.R. No. 210504, January 24, 2018 Accion Interdictal, Accion Publiciana, Accion Reivindicatoria, Recovery of Posession