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ROMERO v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

No. 4484.

182 F.2d 864 (1950)

ROMERO v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 16, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Fernandez Cuyar, San Juan, Puerto Rico, for appellant.

Marvin E. Frankel, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (H. G. Morison, Assistant Attorney General, Samuel D. Slade and David B. Bliss, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Mastin G. White, Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Irwin W. Silverman, Chief Counsel, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, and Shirley Boskey, Attorney, Department of the Interior, all of Washington, D. C., with him on brief), for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, and CLARK, by special assignment, and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.

MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, rendered January 17, 1950, affirming a judgment of the District Court for the Judicial District of San Juan on March 2, 1949, finding appellant Aleja Romero guilty of the unlawful possession of bolita materials in violation of § 4 of Act No. 220, Laws P.R. 1948, p. 738, known as the Bolita Act.

Section 4 of the Bolita Act is one section of a number of...

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