People v. Rodríguez Santiago

Mr. Justice Todd, Jr.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

José Antonio Rodriguez was tried by a jury in the District Court of Mayagüez of the crime of murder in the second degree. The court charged the jury that it could render one of these three verdicts: guilty of murder in the second degree or of voluntary manslaughter or not guilty. Notwithstanding‘this, the jury, after deliberating, rendered a verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The court did not accept this verdict because the same was erroneous, charged the jury again as to the verdicts that it could render and ordered it to…