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B. Velasquez vs. Dir. Of Prisons

BERNARDO VELASQUEZ, petitioner, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF PRISONS, respondent.

G.R. No. L-1208 | 1947-01-30

D E C I S I O N

BENGZON, J:

Habeas corpus proceeding. Petitioner Bernardo Velasquez alleges he has been in prison since June, 1944, pursuant to an order of the Zambales court of first instance, pending the revision of his case by this Court, to which he had appealed in May, same year. He asserts that his incarceration for more than two years and six months violates his constitutional right to speedy trial, and that, as a consequence, the Government, in failing to act with dispatch on the matter, lost its authority to detain him further.

Answering the petition, the Solicitor General, for respondent, explains: (1) the prisoner is confined...