Case ID: pr_25/html/0491-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Me. Justice Wole", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

People, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Padilla, Defendant and Appellant.
    Appeal from the District Court of Arecibo in a Prosecution for Violation of the Civil Service Law.
    No. 1099.
    Decided July 9, 1917.
    Decided on the grounds of the opinion delivered in Case No. 1084, People v. Wys, ante.
    
    
      Mr. Antonio Trujillo Oüil for the appellant.'
    
      Mr. Salvador Mestre, fiscal, for the appellee.
   Me. Justice Wole

delivered the opinion of the court.

In this case there was a demurrer to the information and at the trial the appellant insisted that no public offense had been charged or proved. For the reasons assigned in the case of People v. Wys, just decided, the judgment must be reversed and the prisoner discharged.

Reversed.

Chief Justice Hernández and Justice Aldrey concurred.

Justices del Toro and Hutchison dissented.