Cruz Costales v. Commonwealth

Plaintiff, a youngster 15 years of age, was a student of José González Ginorio School located in the ward of Romero in Villalba, Puerto Rico, and at the time of the occurrence he was attending a manual-training class supposedly under the direction and supervision of the industrial arts teacher of that school, Luis Rios, codefendant herein. Rios was never summoned nor brought to trial. During the manual-training class the teacher absented himself from the classroom without any apparent reason and without his absence having been justified nor accounted for in any manner whatever by the…