People v. Santiago
People v. Santiago
Opinion of the Court
Antonia Santiago was charged with two violations of § 4 of the Bolita Act. She was charged with having had in
The trial court declared defendant guilty in both cases imposing in each one a sentence of 6 months in jail to be served concurrently. On appeal defendant assigns as the only error the court’s declaring her guilty by “chiefly employing for its judgment evidence of very scarce probative value.”
In our judgment that error was not committed. The testimony of the only witness presented by The People sufficiently and directly proved the commission of both violations of the Bolita Act. As appellant states the evidence taken as a whole was conflicting, but the conflict was decided against her and was sufficiently supported by the evidence.
Appellant calls our attention to the incident in which the presiding judge asked defendant to write certain numbers, and to the statements of the judge to the effect that the numbers written by her in the course of the trial were identical to those which appeared in the papers introduced as evidence. This incident took place while defendant occupied the witness stand and had become a witness like any other. The trial was not held before the jury. We do not see how this prejudiced appellant, considering the circum
The judgments appealed from will be affirmed.
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