Section 2
SEC. 2. Section seventeen of the same Act, as amended. is hereby further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 17. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.— Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction over cast affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; and original and exclusive jurisdiction in petitions for the issuance of writs of certiorari, prohibition mandamus against the Court of Appeals. "In the following cases, the Supreme Court shall exercise original and concurrent jurisdiction with Court First Instance: 1. In petitions for the issuance of writs of certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo warranto, and habeas corpus; and 2. In actions brought to prevent and restrain violations law concerning monopolies and combinations in restraint of trade. "The Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to review, revise, reverse, modify or affirm on appeal, as the law or rules of court may provide, final judgments and decrees of inferior courts as herein provided, in— '(1) All criminal cases involving offenses for which the penalty imposed is death or life imprisonment; and those involving other offenses which, although not so punished, arose out of the same occurrence or which may have been committed by the accused on the same occasion, as that giving rise to the more serious offense, regardless of whether the accused are charged as principals, accomplices or accessories, or whether they have been tried jointly or separately; ''(2) All cases involving petitions for naturalization or denaturalization; and "(3) All decisions of the Auditor General, if the appellant is a private person or entity. ''The Supreme Court shall further have exclusive jurisdiction to review, revise, reverse, modify or affirm on certiorari as the law or rules of court may provide, final and decrees of inferior courts as herein provided, in "(1) All cases in which the constitutionality or validity of any treaty, law, ordinance, or executive order or regulation is in question; "(2) All cases involving the legality of any tax, impost, assessment or toll, or any penalty imposed in relation thereto; "(3) All cases in which the jurisdiction of any inferior courts is in issue; "(4) All other cases in which only errors or questions of law are involved: Provided, however, That if, in addition to constitutional, tax or jurisdictional questions, the cases mentioned in the three next preceding paragraph also involve questions of fact or mixed questions of fact and law, the aggrieved party shall appeal to the Court Appeals; and the final judgment or decision of the latte may be reviewed, revised, reversed, modified or affirmed by the Supreme Court on writ of certiorari; and "(5) Final awards, judgments, decisions or orders of the Commission on Elections, Court of Tax Appeals, Court of Industrial Relations, the Public Service Commission, and the Workmen's Compensation Commission."