People v. Rodríguez Ocaña

Eladio Rodríguez Ocaña was charged with an offense of mayhem consisting in that on August 7, 1961, in the town of Utuado, Puerto Rico, he assaulted and battered Emilio Pagán Rodríguez with a club 24 inches long, producing a contused wound approximately two and one half inches long on the frontal region which, according to the information, disfigured his face. The case was heard before a court without a jury and the judge, after observing closely the small and reduced scar, concluded that the case was not one of mayhem but of aggravated assault and battery and sentenced him for the latter…