Legal Opinion

People v. Pérez

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided May 22, 1916No. 933Published

Appeal from the District Court of Mayagüez in a Prosecution for an Offense against Public Health. Tlie facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Aldrey

Diego Pérez took this appeal from a judgment convicting him of the offense of adulterating milk on an information charging that on a certain date and at a given place he fraudulently and maliciously kept and offered for sale adulterated milk as pure and unadulterated.

The first basis of his appeal is that the lower court erred in overruling his demurrer to the information on the ground that it was insufficient to charge an offense because it did not state of what the adulteration of the milk consisted.

The Act of March 10, 1910, amending section 337 of the Penal Code, as amended in 1909,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Commonwealth v. RowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888

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