People v. Ramírez

The appellant was charged before the District Court of Mayagiiez with having killed Eafael Vives Nazario on the first day of May in 1934, under circumstances which the prosecuting attorney thought sufficient to classify the act as a crime of murder in the first degree. It is alleged in the information that the defendant fired several shots from a revolver at his victim, inflicting a wound in his back, as a direct consequence of which he died almost immediately.

The defendant was arraigned on the 28th of May, 1934. He was granted until June 1, 1934, to plead, on which date he entered a plea of…