People v. Castro Anguita

Mr. Chief .Justice Snyder

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Lucas E. Castro Anguita, the defendant-appellant, was. charged jointly with Miguel Angel Palóu and Miguel Cirilo Batalla in the former district court with eight offenses of murder in the first degree and two offenses of attempt to kill. The eight murder informations as well as the two informa-tions for attempt to kill are. identical except for the names *633of the victims. At Castro’s request, the lower court ordered that he be tried'separately on the ten charges which by stipulation were tried together. The cases were tried before a…