Case Name: Cleofe Méndez Salas, Petitioner and Appellant, v. Gerardo Delgado, Warden of the State Penitentiary of Puerto Rico, Defendant and Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1961-06-23
Citations: 83 P.R. 283
Docket Number: No. 12848
Parties: Cleofe Méndez Salas, Petitioner and Appellant, v. Gerardo Delgado, Warden of the State Penitentiary of Puerto Rico, Defendant and Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 83
Pages: 283–283

Head Matter:
Cleofe Méndez Salas, Petitioner and Appellant, v. Gerardo Delgado, Warden of the State Penitentiary of Puerto Rico, Defendant and Appellee.
No. 12848.
Decided June 23, 1961.
Cleofe Méndez Salas, pro se. J. B. Fernandez Badillo, Attorney General, and Genoveva R. Carreras, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
The facts of the case at bar are essentially the same as those which we considered in Hernández v. Delgado, Warden, per curiam decision, 82 P.R.R. 474 (1961), in which we affirmed a judgment denying a petition for habeas corpus,, with the aggravating circumstance that in the instant case the plaintiff himself admits that his brother visited the defense attorney on two or three occasions prior to the trial for the purpose of "organizing the evidence" and devising a defense plan, and that the witnesses whom the defendant mentioned to the attorney testified in his defense.
These facts come clearly within the holding in Hernández v. Delgado, Warden, supra, wherefore the judgment appealed, from will be affirmed.