People v. Galarza

The complaint in this case, a case of assault and battery with aggravated circumstances, charged substantially that the defendant, Andrés Galarza, illegally and voluntarily assaulted and battered the boy Ramón Alonzo, kicking him on the leg and thereby breaking it. The proof shows that in the yard of a school at Bayamón some one of a group of schoolboys threw a sucked orange at the defendant, another schoolboy who had recently entered the school. Angered by this act, the defendant went up to the group and struck one of them a blow with his fist, whereby the boy assaulted apparently fell…