People v. Pérez Méndez

Juan Pérez Méndez was found guilty of three violations of § 4 of Act No. 220 of May 15, 1948 (Sess. Laws, p. 738, 33 L.P.R.A. § 1250), consisting in that on three different occasions “he had in his possession a slip of paper showing three-digit numbers, followed by a dash and other numbers to the right, and that he wrote down for the agent. . . certain numbers for the illegal game of bolita.” He was sentenced to serve eight months’ imprisonment in jail in each case, to be served concurrently. He appealed.

In the appeal taken he assigns four errors, which we turn to consider.

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