Practice question
For determining the charged offense and the court’s power over it, which ordinarily controls: the information’s factual allegations or merely its caption?
- Only the prosecutor’s chosen label
- Only the desired sentence after trial
- Only the accused’s address
- Only the number of attached pages
- The material allegations read with the applicable law
Legal references
- Gomez v. People, G.R.216824, November10 2020: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/nov2020/gr_216824_2020.html
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