People v. López Ballester

This is an appeal brought by the People of Puerto Rico from a judgment of the District Court of San Juan sustaining a demurrer of the defendants to the effect that the facts as charged in the information do not constitute a public offense.

In the information the defendants were charged with infringing section 37 of the Penal Code, committed as follows:

“The said defendants, Ernesto López Ballester, Manuel Rey González and Ernesto Vázquez Torres, sometime in November and December, 1938, in the municipalities of San Juan and Río Piedras, which form part of the Judicial District of San Juan,…