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Yamashita vs. Styer

TOMOYUKI YAMASHITA, petitioner, vs. WILHELM D. STYER, Commanding General, United States Army Forces, Western Pacific, respondent.

G.R. No. L-129 | 1945-12-19

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MORAN, C. J: 

Tomoyuki Yamashita, erstwhile commanding general of the 14th army group of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines, and now charged before an American Military Commission with the most monstrous crimes ever committed against the American and Filipino peoples, comes to this Court with a petition for habeas corpus and prohibition against Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer, Commanding General of the United States Army Forces, Western Pacific. It is alleged therein that petitioner after his surrender became a prisoner of war of the United States of America but was later removed from such status and placed in...