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TO: COURT
OF APPEALS, COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE, CIRCUIT CRIMINAL COURTS AND CITY
AND MUNICIPAL COURTS
SUBJECT:
GRANTING THE MILITARY TRIBUNALS EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OVER CASES OF
ARSON
AND OTHER CRIMES INVOLVING DESTRUCTION AS DEFINED IN ARTICLES 320 TO
326-B
OF THE REVISED PENAL CODE.
"WHEREAS, the crime of arson and other crimes involving destruction has proliferated in the country causing thereby economic dislocation; "WHEREAS, one of the causes of the proliferation of arson is due to the delay in the prosecution of the same; "NOW, THEREFORE, I, PRESIDENT FERDINAND E. MARCOS, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines, hereby decree that the crime of arson and other crimes involving destruction as defined in Articles 320 to 326-B of the Revised Penal Code, shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of Military Tribunals: Provided, That those cases now pending trial before the Civil Courts where the accused had been arraigned, shall continue to be tried by said Courts. "This Order shall take effect immediately. "Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of August in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and seventy-eight. Manila, September
6, 1978.
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