People v. Díaz Figueroa

In the former District Court of Puerto Rico, San Juan Section, a jury found Nicolás Diaz Figueroa guilty of murder in the second degree. The trial judge subsequently rendered judgment sentencing defendant and appellant to serve *351a term from ten to fifteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Defendant has appealed to this Court and assigns five errors.

The evidence introduced by the government tended to prove that on November 25, 1949, in the morning, defendant visited the administration office of the market place of Rio Piedras carrying a revolver and asking for Nicolás Díaz Jiménez, known…