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13 - People v. Hernandez
13 - People v. Hernandez
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court may properly treat all or any part of the original record of the
case filed in its archives as read into the records of a case pending
before it, when with the knowledge of the opposing party, reference
is made to it, by name and number or in some other manner by
which it is sufficiently designated.
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FRANCISCO, J.:
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„Prosecutor
x x x Before we call on our first witness, we propose
some stipulations regarding the testimony of the Chief
Licensing Branch of the POEA·that Cristina
Hernandez is not a (sic) licensed nor authorized by the
Department of Labor to recruit workers abroad.
Court
Would you agree?
Atty. Ulep
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(Counsel for the Accused):Agreed, Your
Honor.‰
„Suppose a case is set for trial and one of the parties moves for a
continuance because of the absence of W, an important witness. His
opponent, who is anxious to go to trial; asks what are the facts to
which W would testify. The other attorney tells him, adding: ÂIf I
consent to the overruling of my motion, will you stipulate that those
are the facts?Ê The attorney who is pressing for trial says: ÂNo but I
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proposed will only have the same effect as if the witness had testified
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to the facts. Such testimony the party is free to contradict.‰
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14 9 Phil. 701.
15 Id. at p. 101.
16 U.S. vs. Pobre, 11 Phil. 51, 51-52.
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for crime should not rest upon mere conjecture. Nor is it possible for
a trial court to weigh with exact nicety the contradictory declaration
of witnesses not produced so as to be subjected to its observation
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and its judgment as to their credibility.‰
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17 11 Phil. 547.
18 Id. at p. 548.
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only during pre-trial but also and with more reason, during
trial proper itself. Parenthetically, although not expressly
sanctioned under the old rules of court, a stipulation of
facts by the parties in criminal cases has long been allowed
and recognized as declarations constituting judicial
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stipulated into the record.
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„Q: You mean to say . . . by the way, where (sic) were you
at the NBI when Mrs. Cinco inquired from you about
placement abroad?
A: I was just invited by the personnel of the NBI and I
was not allowed to go home.
Q: Why were you invited by the NBI?
A: They told me that there was a complaint against me.
Q: Complaint about what?
A: The same case.
Q: You mean illegal recruitment also?
A: Yes, sir.
xxx xxx xxx
Q: You made mention that an illegal recruitment case
which was supposed to be the cause of your detention
at
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the NBI . . .
I am not referring to this case, Mrs. Hernandez
·what happened to that case, what is the status
of that case?
A: It is also in this sala.
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COURT: It is already submitted for decision.
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39 People vs. Alvero, 224 SCRA 16; People vs. Avendaño, 216 SCRA 187.
40 Supra, Note 2, p. 8, Rollo p. 21.
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