People v. Torres Echevarría

Mr. Justice Pérez Pimentel

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On the night of April 6, 1948, at the place called “El Canódromo,” at Muñoz Rivera Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturnino Torres Echevarria killed David H. Daniel, a soldier of the United States Army with a pistol, and inflicted three serious wounds on the civilian Luis Antonio Matos Espada. As a result of these events, Saturnino Torres Echevarria was prosecuted before the former District Court of San Juan, for the offenses of Murder in the First Degree, Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, Carrying Weapons and for a violation of…