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3 P.R. 553

Ex parte Rodríguez

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided June 2, 1903

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico · decided 1903-06-02

The facts are set out by the petitioner as follows: Prisco Rodríguez was sentenced by the Arecibo Court, April 3, 1903, to imprisonment in jail for two months, and costs, upon conviction for a violation of the election law. These two months expired yesterday, in spite of which he is detained in jail to serve an additional term of twenty-eight days for failure to pay twenty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents as costs, according to the liquidation made.

Decided 1903-06-02

¶1Opinion of the Court.

¶2Ramón Falcón Esq., filed a petition in this court, dated May 29th last, requesting that a writ of habeas corpus be issued in favor of Prisco Rodríguez, a prisoner confined in the jail of this city, serving a sentence imposed by the District Court of Arecibo, in proceedings prosecuted against him for violation of the election law.

¶3An order to the warden of the city jail having been issued on the aforesaid date, the hearing on the return of the writ of habeas corpus was had. Mr. Falcón and the Fiscal both being present argued the case.

¶4Inasmuch as on the date the prisoner Prisco Rodríguez applied for a writ of habeas corpus he was lawfully restrained of his liberty, and his detention is still lawful, since the principal penal ty of imprisonment for two months to which he was sentenced by the District Court of Arecibo, has not yet expired, the said Prisco Rodriguez cannot be discharged, and we impose upon him the costs.

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