Cepeda v. Lugo

This is a habeas corpus proceeding coining before us on appeal from the District Court of San Juan. The petitioners *365were accused of the unlawful use of explosives, an offense defined and punished in Section 11 of Act No. 67 of May 13, 1934 (Session Laws, page 458, 478). They confessed to having committed the offense charged, and the court sentenced them to imprisonment in jail for a term of five years at hard labor. Some days later they filed in the same District Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus based upon the following grounds:

1. For the reason that Act No. 67 of 1934 is…