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3 P.R. 459

Ex parte Cirino

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided April 9, 1903

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico · decided 1903-04-09

Petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus. STATEMENT OP TI-IE CASE. The petitioners Severo Cirino 'and Canuto Díaz set forth in their petition that on October 19, 1902, they were sentenced by the Justice of the Peace of “Catedral’’ to imprisonment for a term of ninety days and the payment of a fine of forty-five dollars, for disturbing the peace,, and to imprisonment for a term of thirty days for carrying deadly weapons.

Decided 1903-04-09

¶1Opinion of the Court.

¶2This petition having been presented in due form, the same was heard and considered by the court. No reason having been shown for the discharge of the prisoners who are confined by virtue of an order issued upon final judgment delivered by a court 'of competent criminal jurisdiction, the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is refused, and the prisoners ordered to be remanded to the custody-*463of the warden of the San Juan Jail and the costs of these proceedings imposed upon the said prisoners.

Messrs. Chief Justice Quiñones, and Associate Justices Hernández, Sulzbacher and MacLeary, concurring.Mr. Justice Figueras, dissenting.
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