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Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1975 > February 1975 Decisions > G.R. No. L-35992 February 25, 1975 - LEONOR S. LITTON, ET AL. v. B. JOSE CASTILLO, ET AL.:




PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

EN BANC

[G.R. No. L-35992. February 25, 1975.]

LEONOR S. LITTON and ROGELIO M. PAZ, Petitioners, v. HON. B. JOSE CASTILLO, Provincial Fiscal of Rizal, HON. VICENTE ABAD SANTOS, in his capacity as Secretary of Justice, and GEORGE LITTON, Sr., Respondents.


SYLLABUS


1. CRIMINAL PROCEDURES; PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION; UNIFORM SYSTEM OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION. — Presidential Decree No. 77, issued by the President of the Republic of the Philippines on December 6, 1972, and General Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972, amending Section 1 of Republic Act No. 5180 (Prescribing a Uniform System of Preliminary Investigation by Provincial and City Fiscals and their Assistants and by State Attorneys or their Assistants), from part of the law of the land (Article XVII, Section 3[2] of the New Constitution.


R E S O L U T I O N


ANTONIO, J.:


Considering that Presidential Decree No. 77 issued by the President of the Republic of the Philippines on December 6, 1972 pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972, and General Order No. 1 dated September 22, 1972, amending Section 1 of Republic Act No. 5180 (Prescribing a Uniform System of Preliminary Investigation by Provincial and City Fiscals and their Assistants and by State Attorneys or their Assistants), the validity of which is being questioned in the present petition for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus, now forms part of the law of the land (Article XVII, Section 3[2] of the new Constitution), the Court Resolved to DENY the petition for lack of merit.

Makalintal, C.J., Barredo, Makasiar, Esguerra, Fernandez and Aquino, JJ., concur.

Castro and Teehankee, JJ., in the result.

Fernando, J., concurs on the ground of presumptive validity.

Muñoz Palma, J., took no part.




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