People v. López

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Puerto Rico, Ponce Part, sentencing appellant to six months in jail for violation of § 4 of Act No. 220 of May 15, 1948 (Sess. Laws, p. 738) — “Bolita Act.” He contends that judgment should be reversed assigning as the sole error that the court dismissed “the defendant’s motion for suppression of the evidence” admitted by it, in. spite of its having been “obtained in the course of an illegal search as evidence against the accused.”

*501The evidence referred to in that assignment consisted of lists of three-digit numbers, copybooks, and…