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Lourdes Zacarias vs. Hon. Fernando A. Cruz, Et Al

LOURDES ZACARIAS, petitioner, vs. HON. FERNANDO A. CRUZ, Court of First Instance of Rizal, Caloocan Branch and HON. BENJAMIN AQUINO, Provincial Fiscal, Province of Rizal, respondents.

G.R. No. L-25899 | 1969-11-29

D E C I S I O N 


SANCHEZ, J.: 

Petitioner Lourdes Zacarias seeks, by the present petition for habeas corpus, to nullify respondent judge's order of arrest issued against her in Criminal Case C-1320 of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Caloocan Branch. Her ground is that respondent judge issued the same without personally examining under oath or affirmation the complainant and the witnesses in said case in alleged violation of Section 1(3), Article III of the Constitution. 

Concededly, the order of arrest issued on January 24, 1966 by respondent judge was upon a criminal information for estafa filed in court against...