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29 P.R. 53

People v. Hernández

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided January 27, 1921

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico · decided 1921-01-27

<p>Minimum Wages — Piecework—Evidence.—The mere statement of an inspector in a prosecution for violation of the Minimum Wages Act that a woman working hy the piece earned less than a dollar a day during the week specified in the information is not sufficient evidence to support a judgment of conviction.</p>

Decided 1921-01-27

Mr. Justice Wole

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2This was a prosecution under the Minimum Wage Law of June 9, 1919. The complaint charged that the defend*54ant employed a woman working by the piece 'for forty hours and only paid her $3.97. The proof, however, as pointed out by the fiscal, fails to show that she was working at all in the week which is mentioned in the complaint. The statement of the inspector that he did not recall how much she made, bnt that she was making less than a dollar a day in that week, was insufficient. Hence it was impossible to know how much she earned that week or how much she would have earned.

¶3The judgment must be

¶4Reversed.

Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Del Toro, Aldrey and Hutchison concurred.
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