Budlong vs. Judge Apalisok, G.R. No. 60151, June 24, 1983
Subject: Obligations and Contracts
FACTS
Camilo Puyo y Galagar was charged with slight physical injuries before the City
Court of Tagbilaran City. He pleaded guilty to the charge and applied for
probation. The City Court granted his application and placed him on probation
for a period of two years.
The offended party,
Salvador Budlong, filed a motion for hearing on the civil liability of Puyo.
The City Court denied the motion, holding that the civil liability of Puyo was
extinguished by the grant of probation.
Budlong filed a petition
for certiorari with the Supreme Court, arguing that the City Court erred in
denying his motion for hearing on the civil liability of Puyo.
ISSUE
Whether or not civil
liability of the accused was extinguished.
RULING
No. The Supreme Court
held that the City Court erred in denying the motion for hearing. The Court
held that the grant of probation does not extinguish the civil liability of the
accused. The Court reasoned that the Probation Law is silent on the matter of
civil liability, and that the general rule is that the civil liability of a
person convicted of a crime is not extinguished by his conviction. The Court
held that the City Court should have set a hearing on the civil liability of
Puyo. The Court remanded the case to the City Court for further proceedings.
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