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Epifania M. Cuenca vs. Superintendent Of The Correctional Institution For Women

EPIFANIA CUENCA Y MENDOZA, petitioner-appellant, vs. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-17400 | 1961-12-30

D E C I S I O N 


BARRERA, J.: 

Epifania Cuenca y Mendoza, is appealing from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Rizal (in Spec. Proc. No. 3379), denying her petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
 
Sometime in 1955, appellant was charged with the crime of theft in the Municipal Court of Manila (in Crim. Case No. D-46759), with 3 others, under the following information: 

"The undersigned accuses Epifania Cuenca y Mendoza, Alfredo Coronel y Sarmiento, Remigio Lachica y Basilan, and Ariston Cuevas y Baldueza, of the crime of theft, committed as follows: 

"That on or about the 21st day of July, 1955, in the City of...