People v. Ríos Rivera

Mr. Justice Pérez Pimentel

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant was convicted by the court without a jury of a crime of mayhem. In the information he was charged that on June 4, 1961, in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, “he attacked and assaulted with a machete . . . Silverio Maldonado Durán, a human being, inflicting a lacerated wound on his wrist on the back of his left hand, separating the extensor muscles . . . which lacerated wound on the back of the wrist . . . totally and permanently maimed his left hand, which is an important member of the body of the aforementioned Silverio Maldonado…