Case Name: The People of Puerto Rico, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Octavio Rodríguez López, Defendant and Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1940-02-21
Citations: 56 P.R. 156
Docket Number: No. 7875
Parties: The People of Puerto Rico, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Octavio Rodríguez López, Defendant and Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 156–157

Head Matter:
The People of Puerto Rico, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Octavio Rodríguez López, Defendant and Appellant.
No. 7875.
Argued January 22, 1940.
Decided February 21, 1940.
Adolfo Dones Padró, Laura M. Dones and Luis Vizcarrondo for appellant. R. A. Gómez, Prosecuting Attorney, and Luis Janer, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice HutchisoN
delivered the opinion of the court.
Octavio Rodriguez was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. There is no separate assignment of errors.
Appellant submits that the district court erred in overruling a motion to strike the testimony of a physician who had attended the injured man up to the time of his death and had then performed the autopsy; and in admitting a death certificate. The first of these questions, as developed in the brief for appellant, does not demand serious considera tion. The motion to strike was properly overruled.- The death of the injured man had been already established by the testimony of the attending physician. The death certificate was unnecessary and the error, if any, in the, admission thereof was harmless.
Other contentions are: that the district court erred in refusing to give a special instruction requested by the defense; that the verdict was contrary to the evidence; and that the court erred in overruling a motion for a new trial. They are equally without merit.
The judgment and order appealed from must be affirmed.