Case Name: The People v. Aybar
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1908-06-10
Citations: 14 P.R. 528
Docket Number: No. 137
Parties: The People v. Aybar.
Judges: Chief Justice Quiñones and Justices Hernández and Figueras concurred.
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 528–529

Head Matter:
The People v. Aybar.
Appeal from the District Court of Arecibo.
No. 137.
Decided June 10, 1908.
Criminal Law — Defamatory Libel. — This case being identical to case No. 136, The People v. Abar, decided June 9, 1911, the decision herein is based upon the same grounds as those set forth in the opinion in that case.
The facts are stated in the opinion.
The appellant did not appear.
Mr. Bossy, fiscal, for respondent.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice MacLeary
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case is entirely parallel with case No. 136 which was prosecuted against the same defendant for a similar crime and was decided yesterday by this court. It is for a different libelous article published two days later than the one on which the other case was based; but the two articles were equally libelous.
There is not sufficient difference in the two cases (which involve precisely the same questions), to necessitate the writing of an elaborate opinion, so we will merely refer to that rendered in the former case, delivered by Mr. Justice Her-nández, wliich has onr entire approbation, and for similar reasons affirm the judgment rendered in this case by the trial court.
Affirmed.
Chief Justice Quiñones and Justices Hernández and Figueras concurred.
Mr. Justice Wolf did not sit at the hearing of this case.