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Talabon vs. Iloilo Provincial Warden [SEPARATE OPINION, DISSENTING, HILADO, J.]

CRISPULO TALABON, petitioner, vs. THE ILOILO PROVINCIAL WARDEN, respondent.

G.R. No. L-1153 | 1947-06-30

DISSENTING
 
HILADO, J.:
 
I am unable to agree with the majority in the disposition of this case. It appears that since the year 1942 petitioner has been under preventive detention, first under the custody of the remnants of the Filipino forces in Panay who continued defying the Japanese invaders after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, later under the civil authorities of the Commonwealth Government in the free area of the province of Iloilo, and after liberation and up to the present in the provincial jail of Iloilo. In this Court's resolution of December 10, 1946, the parties were required to inform the Court why,...