Case ID: pr_30/html/0273-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

People, Plaintiff and Appelllee, v. Lecompte et al., Defendants and Appellants.
    Appeal from the District Court of Mayagüez in a Prosecution for Libel. ,
    
    No. 1770.
    Decided March 30, 1922.
    Appeal — Assignment oe Errors. — The judgment of the trial court is presumed to be correct and it is the duty of the appellant, not of this tribunal, to discover and establish the existence of any more, or less technical error that might constitute a possible ground for reversal.
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Mr. A. Nazario Lugo for the appellants.
    
      Mr. José E. Figueras, Fiscal, for the appellee.
   Mr. Justice HutchisoN

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendants appeal from a judgment of conviction for libel whereby they were fined fifty dollars each. The record contains a bill of exceptions, but there is no brief nor assignment of errors. The bill of exceptions suggests several interesting but rather doubtful and somewhat technical questions that might have been elaborated perhaps by a skilful attorney after the necessary research. We have examined the record to the extent necessary to satisfy ourselves that no substantial injustice has been done.

As we have repeatedly pointed out, the judgment of the trial court is presumed to be correct; and it is the duty of ■appellant, not of this tribunal, to discover and establish the existence of any more or less technical error that might constitute a possible ground for reversal.

The judgment appealed from must be

Affirmed.

Chief Justice Del Toro and Justices Wolf and Aldrey concurred.