Legal Opinion
Carlos Roberto Colon-Rosich v. People of Puerto Rico
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 5, 1958No. 5299_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico affirming a judgment of sentence to a term in the penitentiary passed by the Superior Court of Puerto Rico, Ponce Part, upon the appellant after he had been found guilty by a jury of statutory rape.
As is not unusual in cases like this, the only direct evidence of the crime was the testimony of the prosecutrix herself. She testified in substance that she was eleven years old at the time of the alleged offense, that she was a schoolmate and intimate friend of the appellant’s daughter, Margarita, who…
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