FIGUEROA v. SALDANA

No. 2098.

23 F.2d 327 (1927)

FIGUEROA v. SALDANA, Warden.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 27, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Armando A. Miranda, of San Juan, Porto Rico (Aureliano Rivas, of San Juan, Porto Rico, on the brief), for appellant.

William C. Rigby, of Washington, D. C. (George C. Butte, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BINGHAM, JOHNSON, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Porto Rico, denying the petition of the appellant for a writ of habeas corpus.

In his petition, filed July 1, 1926, the petitioner alleged that he had been duly convicted in the district court of Guayama of the crime of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to life imprisonment June 21, 1923; that this conviction had been affirmed on appeal...

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