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Alcantara vs Director of Prisons 75 Phil 749 [ SEPARATE OPINION DE JOYA, J. ]

ANICETO ALCANTARA, petitioner, vs. DIRECTOR OF PRISONS, respondent. [ SEPARATE OPINION DE JOYA, J. ]

G.R. No. L-6 | 1945-11-29

SEPARATE OPINION

DE JOYA, J., concurring: 

The principal question involved in this habeas corpus case is the validity of the judicial proceedings held, during the Japanese occupation, in the Court of First Instance of Ilocos Sur, in which herein petitioner was accused of frustrated murder, and in the Court of Appeals of Northern Luzon, in which, on appeal, said petitioner was found guilty of illegal discharge of firearms with less serious physical injuries, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment ranging from four months and twenty-one days of arresto mayor to three years, nine months and three days of prision correccional; and the...