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Erlana G. Inocencio vs. Amante Alconcel, et al.

ERLANA G. INOCENCIO, petitioner, vs. HON. AMANTE ALCONCEL, as Circuit Criminal Court Judge, Sixth Judicial District, Manila, and JOSE FLAMINIANO, City Fiscal of Manila, respondents.

G.R. No. L-55658 | 1981-02-05

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

There is before this Court an urgent petition in the nature of a mandamus proceeding without it being so expressly denominated praying that an order issue from this Tribunal granting the provisional liberty of petitioner Erlana G. Inocencio. She is accused of parricide in a case pending before respondent Judge Amante Alconcel 1 of the Circuit Criminal Court of Manila. The nine-page petition is rather meager in its invocation of legal doctrines, but certainly infused with the spirit of compassion and sympathy - excessively so it would seem - for the sad plight in which petitioner finds herself. She has been...