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Sanidad etc. vs. Commission on Election etc. [SEPARETE DISSENTING OPINION, MUÑOZ PALMA, J.]

ABLO C. SANIDAD AND PABLITO V. SANIDAD, PETITIONERS, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RESPONDENT. [G.R. NO. L-44684. OCTOBER 12, 1976] VICENTE M. GUZMAN, PETITIONER, VS. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, RESPONDENT. [G.R. NO. L-44714. OCTOBER 12, 1976] RAUL M. GONZALES, RAUL T. GONZALES, JR., AND ALFREDO SALAPANTAN, PETITIONERS, VS. HONORABLE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS AND HONORABLE NATIONAL TREASURER, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. L-44640 | 1976-10-12

SEPARETE DISSENTING OPINION
 
 
MUÑOZ PALMA, J.:
 
 
I concur fully with the remarkably frank (so characteristic of him) dissenting opinion of my distinguished colleague, Justice Claudio Teehankee.  If I am writing this brief statement it is only to unburden myself of some thoughts which trouble my mind and leave my conscience with no rest nor peace.
 
 
Generally, one who dissents from a majority view of the Court takes a lonely and at times precarious road, the burden being lightened only by the thought that in this grave task of administering justice, when matters of conscience are at issue, one must be...