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Laurel vs. Misa 77 Phil 856 [ SEPARATE OPINIONS ]

ANASTACIO LAUREL, petitioner, vs. ERIBERTO MISA, as Director of Prisons, respondent. [ SEPARATE OPINIONS ]

G.R. No. L-200 | 1946-03-28



Separate Opinions 

OZAETA, J., with whom concurs PARAS, J., concurring in the result: 

I concur with the majority in upholding the constitutionality of section 19 of the People's Court Act. In the view I held in the Raquiza case the detention of the petitioner by the military authorities was illegal for lack of due process. But the same thing cannot be said as to his present detention by the respondent Director of Prisons, especially now that an information for treason has been filed against him. 

PERFECTO, J., dissenting: 

On or about May 6, 1945, petitioner was arrested by the C.I.C., United States Army, Camarines Sur. On...