VELAZQUEZ v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

No. 2923.

77 F.2d 431 (1935)

VELAZQUEZ v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

April 12, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Albizu Campos, of San Juan, P. R., for appellant.

William Cattron Rigby, of Washington, D. C. (Benjamin J. Horton, Atty. Gen., and Nathan R. Margold, Solicitor for Department of the Interior, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the People of Puerto Rico.

Before BINGHAM, WILSON, and MORTON, Circuit Judges.


BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico affirming a judgment of the District Court of San Juan sentencing the defendant, appellant, to a year imprisonment and the payment of costs; it having found him guilty of the crime of aggravated assault and battery. The assault was committed upon the person of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico while in his private office on the second floor of the Santo...

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