People v. Rivera
People v. Rivera
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.'
Esteban Rivera took the present appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Humacao which convicted ‘him on appeal of the offense of carrying a firearm.
The principal ground of appeal is that he was convicted of an offense for which -he had been tried already and acquitted.
As nothing else appears in the transcript in regard to the said plea, we are unable to decide whether the appellant’s plea was well founded. The People v. Burgos, 17 P. R. R. 1112, and The People v. Gillies & Woodward, 20 P. R. R. 467.
The court found from the contradictory evidence submitted to it that on the night of October 11, 1914, the appellant was standing on the sidewalk in front of his house and had a revolver with which he fired some shots. Such an act constitutes the offense of carrying weapons of which the appellant was convicted, for the sidewalk is not the residence of a person.
The judgment should he
Affirmed.
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