FACTS:
Private respondent was charged in 1989 with a violation of Republic Act 3019 for acts allegedly committed in 1976. The Sandiganbayan granted his motion to quash on the ground of prescription.
[Write a little the passage of BP 195, increasing prescription from 10 years to 15.]
ISSUE(S):
Whether or not Batas Pambansa Blg. 195, an amendatory law which increased prescription from 10 years to 15, is applicable to the case at bar.
HELD:
NO. To apply, BP 195 to private respondent would make it an ex post facto law for it would alter his situation to his disadvantage by making him criminally liable for a crime that had already been extinguished under the law existing when it was committed.
Petition for review is DENIED for lack of merit.
