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Angel C. Baking, Et Al. vs. Director Of Prisons

ANGEL C. BAKING and SIMEON G. RODRIGUEZ, petitioners, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF PRISONS, respondent.

G.R. No. L-30364 | 1969-07-28

D E C I S I O N 


SANCHEZ, J.: 

Before us for resolution are two identical petitions for habeas corpus filed by petitioners: (1) Angel C. Baking and Simeon G. Rodriguez in L-30364; and (2) Jose Lava, Ramon Espiritu, Federico R. Maclang, Federico Bautista, Onofre Mangila, and Cesario Torres in L- 30603. 

Petitioners concededly had been under detention for more than eighteen (18) years under the charge of respondent Director of Prisons when, on May 16, 1969, this Court in its decision in People vs. Lava, et al., G.R. L-4974-5-6-7-8, convicted petitioners for the crime of rebellion and sentenced each of them to ten (10) years'...