People v. Díaz

A jury found the defendant guilty of the infamous crime «gainst nature and the trial court sentenced him to ñve years in the penitentiary. He appealed from that judgment and assigned as error that the indictment did not state facts sufficient to justify the charge against the defendant because' it did not contain in specific and plain language a clear statement of the acts constituting the crime and also did not aver that Anastasio Ramos, the inactive person, was a male. [1] The indictment reads in part as follows:

“By thi's indictment the grand jnry of the judicial district of Ponce, P. R.,…