People v. Ruiz Rodríguez

Agapito Ruiz Rodriguez was prosecuted in the Superior Court, Humacao Part, for the crime of murder. The case was tried by a jury. It found him guilty of murder in the second degree. The defendant filed a motion for new trial which was denied. The lower court then sentenced him to a term of ten to twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He appealed from the judgment as well as from the order denying him a new trial.

In his first assignment he contends that the lower court erred in denying “seven motions for mistrial filed . . . by the defense, on the ground ... of improper conduct *903o…