Back

Vargas vs. Rilloraza 80 Phil 297 [CONCURRING OPINION]

JORGE B. VARGAS, petitioner, vs. EMILIO RILLORAZA, JOSE BERNABE, MANUEL ESCUDERO, Judges of People's Court, and THE SOLICITOR GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. L-1612 | 1948-02-26

Separate Opinions 
 
MORAN, C. J., concurring: 
 
I agree with the majority decision principally upon the ground that section 14 of People's Court Act No. 682 is so unfair and unjustified that it not only unjustly deprives a majority of the members of this Court of their membership in the cognizance of treason cases, but it also provides for substitutes who may not have the qualifications of Justices of the Supreme Court, thus destroying the quality and integrity of the court's composition as is provided by the Constitution. Judicial independence as intended by the 
 
Constitution is greatly affected by this...