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Torres vs. Gonzales 152 SCRA 272

WILFREDO TORRES Y SUMULONG, petitioner, vs. HON. NEPTALI A. GONZALES, THE CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLE, and THE DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF PRISONS, respondents.

G.R. No. 76872 | 1987-07-23

D E C I S I O N

FELICIANO, J.:

This is an original petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of petitioner Wilfredo S. Torres, presently confined at the National Penitentiary in Muntinlupa. We issued the writ and during the hearing and from the return filed by the respondents through the Solicitor General, and other pleadings in this case, the following facts emerged:

1. Sometime before 1979 (no more specific date appears in the records before this Court), petitioner was convicted by the Court of First Instance of Manila of the crime of estafa (two counts) and was sentenced to an aggregate prison term of from eleven (11) years, ten (10)...