People v. Chaparro

The defendant in this case was charged with a violation of the National Prohibition Act consisting in having kept for sale about two quarts of yellow rum and one-half quart of anisette, alcoholic beverages containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume. In the district court the defendant moved for a dismissal of the prosecution and set forth his grounds therefor in a motion, the pertinent part of which textually reads as follows:

“First: That this ease originated in the Municipal Court of Mayagüez, upon a complaint sworn by insular policeman José Mon-tero Cintrón, wherein…