SANTIAGO v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

No. 4077.

154 F.2d 811 (1946)

SANTIAGO v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

April 1, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herminia Tormes, Leopoldo Tormes, and Fernando H. Usera, all of Ponce, Puerto Rico, on the brief, for appellant.

Beatrice Rosenberg, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Theron L. Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Fowler Harper, Sol., Irwin W. Silverman, Chief Counsel, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Dept. of Interior, Robert S. Erdahl, Atty., Department of Justice, Warner Gardner, Sol., Department of the Interior, and Shirley Ecker Boskey, Atty., Department of the Interior, all of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellee.

Before MAHONEY and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges, and PETERS, District Judge.


MAHONEY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a prosecution under Act No. 114 of the 1942 Laws of Puerto Rico.1 The defendant was convicted in the District Court of Ponce, Puerto Rico, for violation of this statute and the judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. The information charged the defendant with refusing to give work to one Antonio Velazquez, a laborer, because...

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