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Pedro M. Duarte vs. Walter H. Dade 32 Phil 36

PEDRO M. DUARTE, petitioner, vs. WALTER H. DADE, Director of Prisons, respondent.

G.R. No. 10858 | 1915-10-20

D E C I S I O N

TRENT, J.:

This is an original application in this Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner, Pedro M. Duarte, was tried in the first instance over his objection by the court of appeals of the Island of Guam on the 1st day of March, 1915, and sentenced to fourteen years eight months and one day of cadena temporal, to the accessory penalties provided by law, to indemnify the Government of the United States in the sum of $40,944.20, and to the payment of the costs of the cause for the crime of misappropriation of public funds while postmaster at Guam. The governor of Guam mitigated the term of imprisonment to...