People v. Calero Pelegrina

Mb. Justice Db Jesús

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant was sentenced to one and one-half year’s imprisonment in jail and to pay a fine of $5,000 for the violation of the Supplies Act.

The assignment of errors is directed, in the first place, against two orders of the lower court: (a) that which permitted the district, attorney to file a second information after having ordered the dismissal of the first one; and (b) that which authorized him to amend the second one, after defendant’s arraignment but before he entered his plea.

The first information was filed on July 31, 1946, but when…