People v. Berríos Lebrón

These' two cases are here on appeal from judgments of the district court sentencing the defendant to fines of $10 in each case for .the crime of malicious mischief and for violation of §517 of the Penal Code.1 The charge was that the defendant had cut down and carried away somé guaba trees and coffee'plants on land belonging to the complaining witnesses. One of the alleged errors was that the proof was not sufficient to sustain the judgment.

The eases were heard jointly in the lower court. One of the complaining witnesses, Enriqueta Morales, testified that her family had originally come to…