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Laceste vs. Santos

CLEMENTE LACESTE, petitioner, vs. PAULINO SANTOS, Director of Prisons, respondent.

G.R. No. 36886 | 1932-01-01

D E C I S I O N


ROMUALDEZ, J:

The petitioner, Clemente Laceste, prays the court to set him at liberty through the writ of habeas corpus, pleading that there is no sufficient legal ground for continuing his imprisonment any longer.

Together with Nicolas Lachica, he had been prosecuted, found guilty, and sentenced to commitment for the crime of rape.

Subsequently Nicolas Lachica married the victim, Magdalena de Ocampo, and was accordingly relieved from the criminal prosecution by virtue of section 2, Act No. 1773, and article 448 of the Penal Code then in force, which provided that such a marriage extinguished penal liability, and...