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Jose Torrente Vs. W.C. Grove

JOSE TORRENTE, plaintiff-appellee, vs. Capt. W.C. GROVE, and Lieut. A.M. TRUE, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 2340 | 1905-12-21

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Manila in habeas corpus proceedings, discharging the petitioner from detention at the
hands of respondents.

Petitioner was arrested and detained in Manila pursuance of an order of arrest which on its face appears to have been issued by the justice of the peace of Cebu and directed to the sheriff of the city of Manila.

It is alleged that said order is illegal on its face in that the said justice of the peace had no jurisdiction to issue an order directing the making of an arrest outside the Province of Cebu, and it is contended that all...