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Milo vs. Salanga
Milo vs. Salanga
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No. L-37007. July 20, 1987.
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* FIRST DIVISION.
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jeopardy. In the case of U.S. vs. Perez, this Court held that a
motion to quash on the ground that the facts charged do not
constitute an offense cannot allege new facts not only different
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3. That the detention is without legal grounds.
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2 Supra; U.S. vs. Braganza, et al., 10 Phil. 79; Reyes, The Revised Penal
Code, Book Two, 1981 Ed., p. 39.
3 Under Rule 117, Sec. 3 of the Rules of Court, the following are the
grounds on which an accused may move to quash a complaint or
information on any of the following grounds.
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4 Reyes, The Revised Penal Code, Book II, 1981 ed., p. 39.
5 Page 23, Rollo.
6 Page 46, Rollo.
7 Page 46, Rollo.
8 Page 49, Rollo.
9 Page 43, Rollo.
10 Pages 43-44, Rollo.
11 Page 43, Rollo.
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Illegal Detention and Not Arbitrary Detention.
We disagree.
Long before Presidential Decree 299 was signed into
law, barrio lieutenants (who were later named barrio
captains and now barangay captains) were recognized as
persons in authority. In various cases, this Court deemed
them as persons in authority, and convicted them of
Arbitrary Detention. 13
In U.S. vs. Braganza, Martin Salibio, a barrio
lieutenant, and Hilario Braganza, a municipal councilor,
arrested Father Feliciano Gomez while he was in his
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church. They made him pass through the door of the vestry
and afterwards took him to the municipal building. There,
they told him that he was under arrest. The priest had not
committed any crime. The two 14
public officials were
convicted of Arbitrary Detention.
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In U.S. vs. Gellada, Geronimo Gellada, a barrio
lieutenant, with the help of Filoteo Soliman, bound and
tied his houseboy Sixto Gentugas with a rope at around
6:00 p.m. and delivered him to the justice of the peace.
Sixto was detained during the whole night and until 9:00
a.m. of the next day when he was ordered released by the
justice of the peace because he had not committed 16
any
crime, Gellada was convicted of Arbitrary Detention.
Under Republic Act No. 3590, otherwise known as The
Revised Barrio Charter, the powers and duties of a barrio
captain include the following: to look after the maintenance
of public order in the barrio and to assist the municipal
mayor and the municipal councilor in charge of the17 district
in the performance of their duties in such
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barrio; to look
after the general welfare of the barrio; to enforce all19laws
and ordinances which are operative within the barrio; and
to
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33 Section 8, Rule 117, Rules of Court; now Section 7, Rule 117, 1985
Rules on Criminal Procedure; Andres vs. Cacdac Jr., 113 SCRA 216.
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