People v. Vélez
People v. Vélez
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Ramón Vélez and Julián Rivera were charged with the commission of the following act:
“They maliciously and fraudulently engaged in the distillation of alcohol during the three month from April to June, 1919, without having obtained the corresponding internal-revenue license required by section 17 of the Internal Revenue Law in force.”
They were found guilty of having violated the said law.
An appeal having been taken from that judgment, the Fiscal of this court moved for its reversal on the ground that the facts alleged in the information did not constitute
The question is not new. On July 30, 1920, a case similar to the present, People v. Fernández, ante, page 791, was decided by this court in the sense indicated by the Fiscal.
For this reason the judgment appealed from must be reversed and the defendants discharged.
Reversed.
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