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A. Montebon, et al vs. The Dir of Prisons

ALFONSO MONTEBON, ET AL., petitioners, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF PRISONS, ET AL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-1352. | 1947-04-30

D E C I S I O N

TUASON, J:

This is a petition for habeas corpus by Alfonso Montebon on behalf of Elpidio S. Cruz, a prisoner at the Iwahig Penal Colony. A similar petition was filed with this Court by Felicisima Santiago in the name of the same prisoner (Santiago vs. Director of Prisons, 77 Phil., 927), a petition which was denied by us in a decision promulgated on January 30, 1947. The ground of the first petition was the alleged illegality of one of the prisoner's three convictions for estafa. The present application contests the validity of the prisoner's recommitment decreed by the Commissions of Justice of the Philippine Executive...