People v. Ocasio

Manuel Ocasio raised the present appeal from a judgment of conviction rendered against him under a complaint which reads in part as follows:

“That on October 21, 1920, at 10:10 p. m., on the public square of Peñuelas, within the municipal judicial district of Peñuelas, which forms a part of the municipal judicial district of Ponce, P. R., the said defendant, Manuel Ocasio, then and there unlawfully, wilfully and maliciously and while speaking at a Socialist meeting which was being held on the said public square of the said' town, stated that ‘the only decent flag in Porto Rico is the red flag’…