People v. Espinosa
People v. Espinosa
Opinion of the Court
delivered the following opinion of the court:
This is a case prosecuted in the District Court of Maya-güez against José Dolores Espinosa, single, and Rosa Qua-glia, married, for the crime of adultery. The complaint was filed on February 27, 1903; the hearing was had on the 17th of April, following, and on the 18th judgment was rendered, the court declaring at the oral trial that the following facts had been proved:
‘ ‘ That two months ago, more or less, the accused woman, • who then lived in the house of her husband, Guillermo Nenadich, of Mayagüez, went out one night to take a walk with one of her infant daughters, and met José Dolores Espinosa at one of the small bridges on the road leading from said city to the town of Añasco, where both defendants had an interview, after which, said Espinosa, at about eleven o’clock that same night got into the house of the spouses Nenadich by a window opening upon the room where the aforesaid Rosa Quaglia slept with said daughter, and passed the night there, sharing Rosa Quaglia’s cot, and had carnal intercourse with her, leaving between seven and-eight o’clock on the following morning by the same window; and subsequently Rosa Quaglia abandoned the house of her husband.”
Affirmed.
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