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The present case involves consolidated cases for crime committed for violation of

B.P.22 or known as the bouncing check law. The accused of these cases asserted
that B.P. 22 isa violation of constitutional inhibition that no person shall be
imprisoned for non-payment of debts, and therefore, unconstitutional.
Won bP 22 transgressed the constitutional inhibition against imprisonment for debt
The gravamen of the offense punished by BP 22 is the act of making and issuing a
worthless check or a check that is dishonored upon its presentation for payment. It
is not the non-payment of an obligation which the law punishes. The law isnot
intended or designed to coerce a debtor to pay his debt. The thrust of the law is to
prohibit, under pain of penal sanctions, the making of worthless checksand putting
them in circulation

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