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084 Phil 357:




PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

EN BANC

[G.R. No. L-2766. August 25, 1949.]

PABLO ROBATON Y PASTRANA, Petitioner, v. THE DIRECTOR OF PRISONS, Respondent.

Visitacion Buena-Robaton for Petitioner.

Assistant Solicitor General Ruperto Kapunan, Jr. for Respondent.

SYLLABUS


1. HABEAS CORPUS; JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION RENDERED DURING ENEMY OCCUPATION WHICH HAD NO POLITICAL COMPLEXION, VALIDITY OF. — Sentences rendered by regular courts during the enemy occupation for crimes which had no political complexion did not become invalid after liberation.


D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.:


For stealing personal property from a private party, petitioner was, on November 23, 1943, convicted of theft by the Court of First Instance of Manila and sentenced to an indeterminate penalty of from 6 months of arresto mayor to 1 year, 8 months and 21 days of prision correccional. Though he commenced to serve this sentence on the following day, petitioner later evaded it by escaping from prison on March 16, 1944. He was, however, recaptured and turned over to the Bureau of Prisons on May 22, 1948.

Petitioner now asks for a writ of habeas corpus, contending that the sentence rendered against him during the Japanese occupation is no longer valid, invoking in support of this contention the decision of this Court in Peralta v. Director of Prisons, 42 Off. Gaz., 198 and a proclamation of General MacArthur nullifying certain acts of the Government during said occupation.

The petition is without merit. Petitioner was sentenced for committing an act penalized by the territorial law (the Revised Penal Code) as a crime against the legitimate government. The crime had no political complexion. It was "one that would have been punished any time, anywhere." Petitioner was convicted of that crime by one of the regular courts. Under our ruling in such cases, the sentence, though rendered during the enemy occupation, did not become invalid thereafter. (Guinto v. Director of Prisons, 45 Off. Gaz., 2890 1 Landicho v. Superintendent G. R. No. L-1498; Montebon v. Director of Prisons, 44 Off. Gaz., p. 3312 2 .)

The decision in Peralta v. Director of Prisons has no application here, because there the accused was convicted of an offense which had political complexion, an offense taken out of the territorial law and placed under the punitive sanction of an Ordinance promulgated by the puppet government for the protection of the army of occupation.

The petition for habeas corpus is therefore denied, without special pronouncement as to costs. So ordered.

Moran, C.J., Ozaeta, Paras, Feria, Bengzon, Padilla, Tuason and Montemayor, JJ., concur.

Endnotes:



1. 80 Phil., 55.

2. 78 Phil., 427.




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