People v. Díaz Breijo

Mr. Justice Rigau, with whom Mr. Justice Ramírez Bages and Mr. Justice Torres Rigual concur,

dissenting.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 18, 1969.

I regret to be obliged to dissent. In this case appellant was charged with a violation of § 423 of the Penal Code,1 which declares a public offense that a person “knowingly has in his possession any die, plate, or any apparatus, paper, metal, machine, or other thing whatever, made use of in counterfeiting” coins, bills, and bank notes. There was strong evidence and the jury found defendant guilty. -

■' The evidence established that in a hotel room in San…