FIGUEROA RUIZ v. DELGADO

No. 6627.

359 F.2d 718 (1966)

Gregorio FIGUEROA RUIZ, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Gerardo DELGADO, Warden, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided April 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert O. Reid, Washington, D. C., and Santos P. Amadeo, Rio Piedras, P. R., with whom Richard Ramos Algarin, Santurce, P. R., Luis F. Camacho, Cayey, P. R., and Santiago C. Soler Favale Guayama, P. R., were on brief, for appellant.

Hector R. Orlandi Gomez, Assistant Solicitor Gen., with whom J. B. Fernandez Badillo, Solicitor Gen., was on brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

This petition for habeas corpus raises some very troublesome questions. Petitioner was convicted of two misdemeanors in a District Court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, hereinafter District Court, and sentenced to jail. He did not appeal to the Superior Court, but he did raise the question of the illegality of the District Court procedure — the question he presently advances before us — by appropriate proceedings in the Supreme...

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