People v. Green Pagan

Guillermo Green Pagán was found guilty of burglary in the first degree by a jury of the Ponce Section of the former District Court of Puerto Rico, and sentenced to serve from *806one to three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He appealed to this Court assigning as the only error the following :

“The lower court erred in permitting the prosecuting attorney to offer in evidence a presumptive sworn statement or confession made by the accused before the prosecuting attorney, which statement or confession is nowhere signed by the accused and appellant.”

Indeed, the Court of Ponce did admit in…