Case ID: pr_4/html/0153-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mb. Chief Justice Quiñones,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex Parte Avila.
    Application for a writ of Habeas Corpus.
    No. 15.
    Decided August 4, 1903.
    Habeas Corpus — Pine—Subsidiary Imprisonment. — The writ of habeas corpus will he denied where a petitioner is imprisoned t>y virtue of a final judgment, rendered by a competent court, imposing imprisonment in jail and the payment of a fine, and in default of the payment thereof, to additional imprisonment in excess of the principal term, during the time petitioner is serving the principal imprisonment, but without prejudice to such rights as petitioner may have and in due time exercise with respect to the subsidiary imprisonment.
    The facts are set forth, in the opinion.
    The application'was presented to Mr. Chief Justice Qui-ñones in chambers.
    
      Mr. Falcón, for petitioner.
    
      Mr. Fewille, Assistant Attorney General, for the People.
   Mb. Chief Justice Quiñones,

delivered the following opinion:

The writ issued for the production of the prisoner, José Avila Alicea, having been duly returned, the latter appeared in charge of José V. Berrios, warden of the jail of this city, and the hearing was had, counsel for the prisoner, and the Hon. Frank Feuille, representing the Attorney General being present.

The order for the commitment of the petitioner José Avila Alicea, was issued by virtue of a final judgment rendered by a competent judge who sentenced him to the principal penalty of imprisonment in jail for three months, and payment of a fine of two hundred dollars, or in default thereof to one year and thirty-four days additional imprisonment in jail; and inasmuch as the imprisonment he is now undergoing is for the purpose of extinguishing the personal penalty imposed upon him, which term has not expired, said imprisonment cannot be considered as illegal, but the case must be held as coming under paragraph 2, section 482, of the Code of Criminal Procedure in force in this Island, without prejudice to such rights as he may have, and in due time exercise, with respect to the additional imprisonment which has also been imposed upon him.

It is hereby decreed that the prisoner, .José Avila Alicea, cannot he discharged and he will be remanded to the jail where he was serving his sentence under custody of the warden thereof, with costs against the petitioner.