22 prescribes in four (4) years from the commission
of the offense or, if the same be not known at the time, from the discovery thereof. A criminal case for bp 22 has a prescriptive period of 4 years from the time the check was dishonored. Therefore, if the crime committed was BP 22, the lending company has four (4) years to file a case from the day of the commission of the crime or from the date of dishonor of the check. The notice that the check bounced or was dishonored will only provide the prosecution with a prima facie evidence of deceit constituting false pretense or fraudulent act in Estafa and prima facie evidence of knowledge of such insufficiency of funds or credit in BP 22. This means that if the drawee was notified of the dishonor of his check, the fact of fraud or knowledge of insufficiency of funds is already established.