Torres Rosario v. Saldaña

Mr. Justice De Jesús

delivered the opinion of the court.

Lupercio Torres is confined in the Insular Penitentiary where he is serving a term of one year imposed on him by the District Court of San Juan in which he was convicted of burglary in the first degree, committed, as charged in the information, one day in October 1941. In a habeas corpus petition filed by him in this court he alleges that he was born in 1925, and that on April 9, 1940, the Juvenile Court for the Judicial District of San Juan convicted him as a delinquent child of burglary and placed him in the custody of Esteban Miranda…