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Beltran vs. Diaz, Et. Al.

PROCOPIO BELTRAN, petitioner, vs. POMPEYO DIAZ, JOSE P. VELUZ, and ANTONIO QUIRINO, Associate Judges of People's Court, Fifth Division, and THE SOLICITOR GENERAL, as Head of the Office of Special Prosecutors, respondents.

G.R. No. L-608 | 1946-10-07

D E C I S I O N

SANCHEZ, J:
Certiorari to annul an order issued by the Fifth Division of the People's Court cancelling the bail filed by petitioner for this provisional liberty and ordering the arrest of the latter.

Petitioner, a political detainee, was, on September 15, 1945, released on a bail of P20,000 granted by the Solicitor General, pursuant to the authority vested in the latter by the provisions of Executive Order No. 65 (41 Off. Gaz., 416).

On February 5, 1946, the Office of Social prosecutors filed in the People's Court an indictment on twelve counts charging petitioner with the high crime of treason. Simultaneously, the...