People v. Ortiz Bonilla

Appellant was prosecuted jointly with Juanita Montañez Hernández in the former District Court of Puerto Rico, San Juan Section, for the crime of grand larceny committed, as charged in the information, by taking from the person of Angel Luis Romero Mercado a wallet containing the sum of eleven dollars, belonging to the latter. He was tried by the court without a jury and sentenced to serve from ten to twelve years in the penitentiary on the ground that he was a repeated offender. He appealed praying for reversal of the judgment on the ground that the court committed several errors, which are…