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PRENSA INSULAR DE PUERTO RICO v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

No. 4512.

189 F.2d 1019 (1951)

PRENSA INSULAR DE PUERTO RICO, Inc. et al. v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

June 7, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Schur, New York, N. Y. (Juan B. Soto, Felix Ochoteco, Jr., Guillermo Cintron Ayuso and Juan F. Soto, all of San Juan, P. R., on brief), for appellants.

Benjamin Forman, Attorney, Department of Justice (Mastin G. White, Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Holmes Baldridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Samuel D. Slade, Attorney, Department of Justice, Irwin W. Silverman, Chief Counsel, Office of Territories, and Shirley Boskey, Attorney, Department of the Interior, all of Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, and WOODBURY and HARTIGAN, Circuit Judges.

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

The District Attorney for the Judicial District of San Juan filed informations in the Municipal Court of San Juan against Prensa Insular de Puerto Rico, Inc., a Puerto Rican corporation which publishes a daily newspaper having island-wide circulation called "El Imparcial", and Antonio Ayuso, its editor, charging both with defamatory libel under Article 243 of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico. A trial in the Municipal Court resulted in findings...

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