People v. Holliday

Mr. Chiee Justice Del Toro

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

Two complaints were filed against George L. Holliday, charging him with the crime of embezzlement, committed in *339‘■"wilfully, maliciously, and fraudulently” appropriating the amounts of two checks in favor of “Prensa Insular de Puerto Rico,” one of them for $99.00 and the other for $74.67.

On August 14, 1936, the cares were taken on appeal, to "be tried de novo "before the District Court of San Juan. On January 5, 1937, the defendant moved to dismiss the prosecutions on the ground that more than 120 days had elapsed without his having…