Ex parte Gotay

On the 29th of April, 1927, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was addressed by Pedro F. Gotay to Associate Justice Wolf of this Supreme Court. On the same day Justice Wolf ordered the issuance of the writ, released the petitioner provisionally and set April 30th for the hearing., On that date J. B. García, Méndez, José Sabater and Miguel Guerra Mondragón moved that as they were respectively Chairman of the Juridical Penal Committee, Chairman of the Juridical Civil Committee and Vice-president of the House of Representatives of Porto Rico and familiar with the case, they be allowed to…