Rodríguez Rivera v. Committee for the Settlement of Municipal Complaints

On March 17, 1959 the Committee for the Settlement of Municipal Complaints issued an order directing the removal of Edelmiro Rodriguez Rivera from his office as mayor of the Municipality of Aibonito, upon granting the first of four charges preferred against him by the Governor of Puerto Rico, through the corresponding complaint. Respondent appealed from this order by way of the certiorari provided by paragraph 10 of § 29 of the Municipal Law of 1928 (21 L.P.R.A. § 132), as amended by Act No. 4 of December 7, 1955 (Sp. Sess. Laws, p. 62) ,1

The facts alleged in the charge found proved and which…