People v. Palóu Márquez

Miguel Angel Palóu was convicted in the San Juan Part of the Superior Court of eight offenses of first-degree murder and of two offenses of attempt to kill, committed in perpe*355trating arson by burning a building located at 300 Fortaleza Street of San Juan before dawn on December 15, 1949. The trial was held before a court without a jury. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on each of the eight murder counts and given an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years in the penitentiary, at hard labor, on each count of attempt to kill. We turn to consider and decide the appeal taken to this Court…