FOURNIER v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO

No. 5550.

281 F.2d 888 (1960)

Ramon Antonio FOURNIER Sampedro, Defendant, Appellant, v. PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

September 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerardo Ortiz del Rivero, San Juan, P. R., for appellant.

Arturo Estrella, Deputy Solicitor Gen., San Juan, P. R., with whom Juan B. Fernandez Badillo, Solicitor Gen., San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for appellee.

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


WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

On November 26, 1950, an information was filed in the now superseded District Court of San Juan, Puerto Rico, charging the appellant herein with the first degree murder of his former wife by strangulation on September 7, 1950, and with thereafter clandestinely burying her body in the Fournier Cemetery in Isla Verde of which the appellant was a part owner and the general manager. A trial by jury on plea of not guilty at which evidence of two...

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