People v. Padró
People v. Padró
Opinion of the Court
after making the above statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court as follows:
It is provided by section 345 of the Code of Criminal Procedure that either of the parties in a criminal action amounting to a felony, may appeal to the Supreme Court, on questions of law alone, and sections 347 and 348 of the same code, in enumerating the decisions from which an appeal may be taken, make no mention of those rendered in actions for misdemeanor, from which it is clear, either from a consideration of the literal text of aforesaid section 345, or the rule of interpretation inclusio unius est exclusio alterms, that appeals lie only in actions for felony, especially when it is remembered that in the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of California, from which the code now in force in this Island was largely taken, appeals are expressly allowed in actions for either felony or misdemeanor, whence it must be concluded that when in aforesaid section 345 no mention is made of appeals in actions for misdemeanor, the intention of the legislature was to withhold this remedy in such cases.
Isaac Padró and Felipe Reyes having been sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars each, the ■ crime of which they are convicted should be considered a misdemeanor, under section 14 of the Penal Code; wherefore the appeal allowed by the Mayagfiez Court does not lie.
As said appeal does not lie, this Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over the subject matter, and the judgment must stand as rendered.
We adjudge that we should declare and do declare that
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