People v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

The crime of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated was specifically incorporated into our penal statute by the adoption of § 13 of Act No. 279 of April 5, 1946 (Sess. Laws, pp. 598, 636 )1 9 L.P.R.A. § 183. On April 1, 1953 the Governor of Puerto Rico addressed the Legislative Assembly in a message expressing his “deep concern regarding the alarming proportions reached by the increasing number of automobile accidents that have been occurring on the highways,” and he stated that “the government could prevent a number of such accidents by making the laws which penalize careless driving…