Case ID: pr_8/html/0557-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mb. Justice Wole", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People v. Acosta.
    Appeal from the District Court of Humacao.
    No. 9.
    Decided June 15, 1905.
    Criminal Law — Information—Exceptions.—Where exceptions to an information haxe not "been alleged in dne time and in a proper manner before the trial court, they cannot be considered on appeal.
    
      The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Mr. Bossy, Fiscal, for respondent.
    The appellant did not appear.
   Mb. Justice Wole

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal taken by Serafín Martínez Acosta from a judgment of the District Court of Humacao, sentencing him in a prosecution for perjury to imprisonment for one year at hard labor in the penitentiary of San Juan, and to pay the costs.

The grounds for this appeal are substantially the same as those alleged in support of the appeal in the case of Antonio Lopes, and we believe that the grounds of the decision in the latter case are applicable to this case, although we must add with regard to the second violation alleged, that counsel for the accused not having attacked the information either by means of a motion to dismiss it or on the ground of the evidence, this alleged violation cannot be discussed.

For the reasons stated, the judgment appealed from should be affirmed.

Affirmed.

Chief Justice Quiñones, and Justices Hernández, Figueras and MacLeary concurred.