Marrero Laffosse v. Marshal

delivered the. opinion of the Court.

Guilty of murder in the first degree was the verdict rendered by the jury in the criminal prosecution filed against appellant Jesús Marrero Laffosse, for having caused the violent death of Armando Marrero Sánchez. On November 7, 1961 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On the same date, at 9:22 a.m., he filed a petition for habeas corpus1 in which, after relating at length the facts of the criminal prosecution which culminated in his conviction, he adduced that he was illegally detained because the trial in which he was prosecuted was not valid on the…