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People vs. Lopez [DECISION]

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. EUSEBIO LOPEZ, Associate Judge of Second Division of People's Court, BENIGNO S. AQUINO and ANTONIO DE LAS ALAS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-1243 | 1947-04-14

PERFECTO, J.:
 
Solicitor General Lorenzo M. Tanada, as head of the Office of Special Prosecutors, and Prosecutors Juan R. Liwag and Pedro C. Quinto filed, in the name of the People of the Philippines, a petition praying that a writ of prohibition be issued commanding Associate Judge Eusebio M. Lopez, of the Second Division of the People's Court, "to desist from further proceedings in, or further exercising his jurisdiction in the trial of, and from otherwise taking further cognizance of criminal cases for treason against Benigno S. Aquino (No. 3527) and against Antonio de las Alas (No. 3531), and other treason cases of the...