Rodríguez v. District Court of Humacao

Mr. Justice De Jesús

delivered the opinion of the court.

During the pendency, in the District Court of Humacao, of a prosecution against Saturnino Rodríguez for the alleged crime of incest, the then judge of said court, Mr. Benjamin Ortiz, on the 12th of the present month rendered in said case an order which in its pertinent part reads as follows :

“Pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 250, approved May 13, 1942, the court transfers this case, to the District Court of Ca-guas. . .”

On the same day the defendant filed, in the District Court of Humacao, a motion praying that the aforesaid order…