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G.R. No. 149357.

March 04, 2005

MOBILIA PRODUCTS, INC., Petitioners,


vs.
HAJIME UMEZAWA, Respondent.

G.R. No. 149403. March 04, 2005

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Petitioners,


vs.
HON. JUDGE RUMOLDO R. FERNANDEZ and HAJIME UMEZAWA, Responde

Umezawa, then the President and General Manager of MPI, organized another company with
his wifeKimiko, and his sister, Mitsuyo Yaguchi, to be known as Astem Philippines Corporation,
withoutknowledge of the Board of Directors of MPI. The said company would be engaged in the same
businessas Mobilia. Umezawa stole products from MPI amounting to P3,219,875.00.MPI and public prosecutor
filed criminal complaints against Umezawa. The trial court asserted that thecontroversy involving the criminal
cases was between Umezawa and the other stockholders of MPI. It also held that the SEC, not the trial
court, had jurisdiction over intra-corporate controversies.CA affirmed the ruling of the RTC that the
dispute between Umezawa and the other stockholders and officers over the implementation of the
MPIs standard procedure is intra-corporate in nature; hence,within the exclusive jurisdiction of the
SEC. The petitioner MPI filed the instant petition for review oncertiorari

.ISSUE:WON CA is correct.

HELD:Patently, then, based on the material allegations of the Informations, the courta quo had
exclusive jurisdiction over the crimes charged. CA erred in holding that the dispute between it
and the respondentis intra-corporate in nature; hence, within the exclusive jurisdiction of the SEC. As gleaned
from thematerial allegations of the Informations, the RTC had exclusive jurisdiction over
the crimescharged. According to Section 20 of B.P. Blg. 129 Regional Trial Courts shall exercise exclusive
original jurisdiction in all criminal cases not within the exclusive jurisdiction of any court, tribunal
or body,except those now falling under the exclusive and concurrent jurisdiction of the
Sandiganbayan whichshall hereafter be exclusively taken cognizance of by the latter.Case law has it that in
order to determine the jurisdiction of the court in criminal cases, the complaint orInformation must be examined
for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the facts set out thereinand the prescribed period provided for by
law are within the jurisdiction of the court, and where thesaid Information or complaint is filed. It is settled that
the jurisdiction of the court in criminal cases isdetermined by the allegations of the complaint or
Information and not by the findings based on theevidence of the court after trial. Jurisdiction
is conferred only by the Constitution or by the law in forceat the time of the filing of the Information or
complaint. Once jurisdiction is vested in the court, it isretained up to the end of the litigation.

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