People vs Camerino,CA - G.R. No.

14207-R

FACTS:(Not available)

ISSUE: Whether the accused is liable for arbitrary detention under Article 124 of the
Revised Penal Code?

RULING: YES. "Private individuals who conspired with public officers in detaining certain
policemen are guilty of arbitrary detention"(Reyes, p. 43). Moreover, it is in the law
that any restraint on one’s liberty, even for a mere short period of time,
iscriminally actionable: “Even if the persons detained could move freely in and out of
their prison cell and could take theirmeals outside the prison, nevertheless, if they
were under the surveillance of the guards and they could not escape forfear of being
apprehended again, there would still be arbitrary detention.”(as cited in Lozada vs. Atienza,
et al).

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