Mora v. Oquendo

Paragraph 2 of § 96 of the Civil Code provides as a ground for divorce: “Conviction of one of the parties to the marriage of a felony, which may involve the loss of civil rights.” Evelina Mora, who married Radio Oquendo in 1941, sued him for a divorce in 1945, alleging grounds therefor pursuant to paragraph 2.

The evidence at the trial showed that in 1938 Oquendo pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with a felony in the United States District Court for Puerto Rico, and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary; that he served a portion of his term in the penitential and was then…