Case Name: People of Puerto Rico, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Ruperto Haddock, Defendant and Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1932-07-07
Citations: 43 P.R. 721
Docket Number: No. 4742
Parties: People of Puerto Rico, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Ruperto Haddock, Defendant and Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 43
Pages: 721–721

Head Matter:
People of Puerto Rico, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Ruperto Haddock, Defendant and Appellant.
No. 4742.
Argued June 14, 1932. —
Decided July 7, 1932.
Celestino Iriarte for appellant. R. A. Gómez, Fiscal, for appellee.

Opinion:
Me. Justice Wole
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Ruperto Haddock maintains that a complaint filed against him for carrying a prohibited weapon is insufficient. Among other things he says that it was not sufficiently averred that he had the pistol on a public street or outside of his house. The complaint said that the offense was committed in San-turce on Borinquen Avenue, at the Corner of Cortijo. This was prima facie a sufficient averment of carrying an arm on a public thoroughfare.
The appellant also laid some stress upon the fact alleged that the pistol was taken away from him in his own house. Necessarily the averment that the pistol was taken away from him in his own house was superfluous if the complaint sufficiently showed the place where the offense was actually committed.
The judgment should be affirmed.