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Sayo vs. Chief of Police

MELENCIO SAYO and JOAQUIN MOSTERO, petitioners, vs. THE CHIEF OF POLICE and THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF MUNICIPAL JAIL, BOTH OF CITY OF MANILA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-2128 | 1948-05-12

D E C I S I O N

FERIA, J:

Upon complaint of one Bernardino Malinao, charging the petitioners with having committed the crime of robbery, Benjamin Dumlao, a policeman of the City of Manila, arrested the petitioners on April 2, 1948, and presented a complaint against them with the fiscal's office of Manila. Until April 7, 1948, when the petition for habeas corpus filed with this Court was heard, the petitioners were still detained or under arrest, and the city fiscal had not yet released or filed against them an information with the proper courts of justice.

This case has not been decided before this time because there was not a sufficient...