People v. Saldaña

Eusebio Saldana appeals from a judgment sentencing him to seven years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary for voluntary manslaughter.

The evidence for the prosecution showed that Saldaña, a weak, sick, and old man, shattered the skull of Alejandro Delgado by heating him with a piece of bamboo. That for the defense explained that Delgado, a young, strong, and insolent man with a violent temper, who for some time had been showing undue interest in Saldana’s young wife, to the extent that Saldana had complained of it to the Justice of the Peace and to the Police, attempted to fUn off with Saldana’s…