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Cortes vs. Dir. Of Prisons

NARCISO ALVAREZ Y CORTES, petitioner, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF PRISONS, respondent.

G.R. No. L-1809 | 1948-01-23

D E C I S I O N

FERIA, J:

This is a petition for habeas corpus filed by the petitioner against the Director of Prisons on the ground that he is being illegally detained in the New Bilibid Prisons, notwithstanding the fact that the President of the Republic of the Philippines, through the recommendation of the Board of Indeterminate Sentence, granted the petitioner on December 23, 1946, absolute pardon of the crime of murder which he committed and of which he was convicted and sentenced to reclusion perpetua on June 5, 1945, by the Court of First Instance of Manila in criminal case No. 70022.

The Director of Prisons, in his return which,...