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Facts:Oriel Magno is on the process of putting up a car repair shop sometimein April 1983 but he lacks fund in acquiring complete set of equipments forhim to make his shop operational. Thus, she approached Corazon Teng, VicePresident of Mancor Industries, for his needed equipment for car repair ofwhich Mancor was a distributor.Havingbeen approached by petitioner on hispredicament, who fully bared that he had no sufficient funds to buy the equipment needed, Tengreferred Magno to LS Finance and Management Corporation advising its Vice-President, JoeyGomez, that Mancor was willing and able to supply the pieces of equipment needed if LSFinance could accommodate petitioner and provide him credit facilities.The arrangement went on requiring Magno to pay 30% of the total amount of theequipment as a warranty deposit. Since Magno dont have that money he requested Joey Gomezto look for third party who could lend him that amount. And apparently Corazon Teng was theone who provided that amount without the knowledge of Magno. As a payment to theequipment, Magno issued six checks wherein only two of them were cleared and the rest have nosufficient fund. Likewise, because of unsuccessful venture, Magno also failed to pay LS Financewho then pulled out the garage equipments. Magno was charged four counts of violation of B.P.Blg. 22 (The Bouncing Checks Law) where he found guilty and affirmed by the Court ofAppeals. Hence, the present petition for reviewIssue:Whether Magno should be punished for the issuance of the checks in questions.Ruling:The Supreme Court held that Magno is not criminally liable for the issued checks. Tocharge the petitioner for the refund of a "warranty deposit" which he did not withdraw as it wasnot his own account, it having remained with LS Finance, is to even make him pay an unjust"debt", to say the least, since petitioner did not receive the amount in question. All the while, saidamount was in the safekeeping of the financing company, which is managed, supervised andoperated by the corporation officials and employees of LS Finance.It is intriguing to realize that Mrs. Teng did not want the petitioner to know that it wasshe who "accommodated" petitioner's request for Joey Gomez, to source out the needed funds for