Gregorio Figueroa Ruiz v. Gerardo Delgado, Warden

ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

This petition for habeas corpus raises some very troublesome questions. Petitioner was convicted of two misdemeanors in a District Court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, hereinafter District Court, and sentenced to jail. He did not appeal to the Superior Court, but he did raise the question of the illegality of the District Court procedure— the question he presently advances before us — by appropriate proceedings in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, and was turned down. 1 2 No question arises as to the proper exhaustion of his local remedies. The United States District…