People v. Atilano

Pedro Juan Atilano was accused before the Municipal Court of Salinas of petit larceny in that he had wilfully and feloniously taken a hen belonging to Juan Ayes and valued at one dollar, selling the same for seventy-five cents to Julia Ortiz and appropriating to himself the proceeds of the sale.

At a trial de novo held in the District Court of G-uayama, the district attorney presented the following evidence for the prosecution:

Juan Ayes testified that he was the owner of a Plymouth Rock (loriga) hen which roosted beside the kitchen of his house situated in Playa Street, Salinas, and that it…