People v. Moreu Pérez

Mr. Justice Ramírez Bages

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellants, Mario Moreu Pérez and Francisco González Pérez, were accused and convicted of the crime against nature committed on the person of a fourteen-year-old girl. They allege that the trial court erred (1) in depriving appellants from verifying whether the verdict of the jury was returned by at least nine of its members; (2) in failing to inquire from the jury the reason for their request to return to the courtroom and in ordering them to go for lunch and later continue deliberating; (3) and (4) they also alleged that the…