Figueroa v. Saldana

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Porto Rico, denying the petition of the appellant for a writ of habeas corpus.

In his petition, filed July 1, 1926, the petitioner alleged that he had been duly convicted in the district court of Guayama of the crime of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to life imprisonment June 21,1923; that this conviction had been affirmed on appeal by the Supreme Court of Porto Rico; and upon information and belief he alleged that some time after he had begun the service of his term…