G.R. No. L-14639 March 25, 1919 [Habeas Corpus]
Facts:
Mayor
Lukban, for the best of all reasons, to exterminate vice, ordered the
segregated district for women of ill repute, which had been permitted for a
number of years in the city of Manila Davao , Mindanao,
as laborers; with some government office for the use of the coastguard cutters Corregidor
and Negros , and with the Constabulary
for a guard of soldiers.
ISSUE:
Whether or not the person be actually confined for
writ of Habeas Corpus to issue.
RULING:
No,
there is no need for actual confinement. Any restraint which precludes freedom
of action is sufficient. The forcible taking of women of ill-repute from Manila to be brought to Davao
