People v. Collazo

This is an appeal from a sentence of the District Court of Guayama in a case of seduction. The appellant was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary at hard labor. The information set up that Benito Collazo, in the ward of Carite of Guayama on the first day of the month of November, voluntarily and maliciously seduced, under promise of marriage, Maria Hernández, a young woman theretofore reputed chaste, having sexual intercourse with her.

On December 18, 1911, the record was filed in this court and contains a statement of the case. The fiscal asks us to disregard this statement because it…