Ex parte Pesquera
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Appeal from the District Court of San Juan, Section 2. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice MacLeary
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Second Section of the District Court of San Juan remanding the prisoner, on a proceeding in habeas corpus, to the custody of the jailer of the municipal prison of Dorado. The appellant, who is an attorney practicing in the municipal court of Bayamón, over which the. Hon. L. Santiago Carmona presides, was trying a criminal case in that court, and oh the judge undertaking to propound certain questions to a witness made objections thereto, from which a colloquy arose, which resulted in the ■court adjudging the attorney to be in contempt and com-*708mi t ting…
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