Case Name: The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Marcano et al., Defendants and Appellants
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1914-07-14
Citations: 21 P.R. 152
Docket Number: No. 696
Parties: The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Marcano et al., Defendants and Appellants.
Judges: Chief Justice Hernández and Justices "Wolf, del Toro, Al--drey and Hutchison concurred.
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 152–153

Head Matter:
The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Marcano et al., Defendants and Appellants.
Appeal from the District Court of Humacao in a Prosecution for G-aming.
No. 696
Decided July 14, 1914.
Duplicity op Charges — Statement op Case — Appeal.—A plea made for the first time on appeal that for acts committed on the same day and in the same circumstances the accused was charged with two offenses and sentenced twice instead of once, should he dismissed when the record fails to show that said plea was made in the lower court and the same is not shown from the statement of the case.
Mr. Salvador Mestre, fiscal, for The People.
Mr. Manuel F. Bossy for the appellants.

Opinion:
judgment.
The present case coming on for hearing on July 7, instant, and both parties appearing, this court has examined the transcript of the record, which contains no statement of the ease or bill of exceptions, and the only plea set np in support of the appeal being that in the case at bar defendants were convicted of the offense defined in section 299 of the Penal Code .and in another case of the offense defined in section 300 of the same code, whereas the appellants contend that they should have been punished for only one of said offenses, which plea -cannot be sustained because, among other reasons, it does not appear that it 'was interposed in the lower court and because there is no statement of the case to support it; therefore, in view of the decisions rendered by this court in the cases of The People v. Belpré, 19 P. R. R., 485 and 487, and it not having been shown that any fundamental error has been committed, the appeal is dismissed and the judgment rendered by the District Court of Humacao on April 7 of the present year, from which this appeal was taken, is affirmed. Let due notice hereof be given.
Affirmed.
Chief Justice Hernández and Justices "Wolf, del Toro, Al--drey and Hutchison concurred.