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Rodriguez vs. Director of Prisons

ARTEMIO RODRIGUEZ, petitioner, vs. DIRECTOR OF PRISONS, respondent.

G.R. No. L-35386 | 1972-09-28

D E C I S I O N


ANTONIO, J:

Petitioner, a national prisoner serving sentence by virtue of final judgments in thirteen (13) criminal cases (Nos. 66987, 56340, 57340, 56727, 62895, 59483, 59493, 58603, 61958, 66412, 59127, 63833 and 59128) for estafa by the Court of First Instance of Manila, questions by this petition for habeas corpus his continued detention. The novel theory posed by petitioner is predicated upon his belief that (a) his acquittal on November 24, 1970 in the case of People v. Artemio Rodriguez, et al. (CA-G.R. No. 09705-CR) by the Court of Appeals "became the law of all the cases" wherein he was convicted, for the reason...