People v. Martínez
People v. Martínez
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court’
The information in this case, in so far as pertinent, reads as follows:
“On or about March 29, 1915, the said Mariano Martínez Arezo wilfully and maliciously had carnal knowledge of Maria Beltran, a girl under fourteen years of age, in Santuree, which forms part of the Judicial District of San Juan.”
The case went to trial and the defendant was convicted and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for the crime of attempted rape. He moved for a new trial on the ground that several errors had been committed and his motion was overruled. Thereupon he appealed to this court from the order refusing a new trial and from the judgment.
Therefore, the judgment should be reversed and the case dismissed without prejudice to further action in accordance with law.
Reversed without prejudice.
Dissenting Opinion
DISSENTING OPINION OP
For the same reasons stated in the dissenting opinion delivered this day in Case No. 816, People of Porto Rico v. Pedro Cortés, which we desire to be understood as repeated here, we dissent from the judgment rendered in the present appeal reversing the judgment of the District Court of San Juan, Section 2, of July 7, 1915, and hold that the same should be affirmed.
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