People v. Alvarez

Mb.. Justice Todd, Jb.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Before proceeding to consider this appeal on its merits, we'wish to state the following facts:

The notice of appeal was filed in the lower court on July 30,1943, and the transcript of the evidence was approved by the judge on March 30, 1944. Two years and ten months later, that is, on January 7, 1947, the clerk of the district court remitted to this Court the judgment roll and the transcript of the evidence which were filed on January 9, 1947.

We condemned a similar situation in People v. Bosch, 66 P.R.R. 896, an appeal from that same…