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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

SECOND DIVISION

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

PABLO RAMOS CAEG, Petitioner, v. HONORABLE VICENTE ABAD SANTOS, as Secretary of Justice and Honorable B. JOSE CASTILLO, as Provincial Fiscal of Rizal, Respondents.

SYNOPSIS


Petitioner’s inclusion in an amended information as co-accused in the crime of homicide as ordered by the Secretary of Justice by virtue of his powers of supervision and control over the work of Provincial Fiscals being in accordance with law, the Court dismissed the petition for lack of merit and ordered the cancellation of the scheduled hearing.


SYLLABUS


1. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: FISCALS; SECRETARY OF JUSTICE CHARGED WITH THE SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF THE WORKS OF FISCALS. — The Secretary of Justice is empowered to supervise and control the work of fiscals and can order the amendment of information so as to include individuals as defendants in a criminal complaint, despite the previous opinion of the investigating and reviewing fiscals to the contrary.


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 v. 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.




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