Supreme Court of Puerto Rico June 5, 1923, No. 2029 (People v. Ejemplo Sugar Co.)

Mb. Justice Wole

delivered the opinion of the court.

Act. No. 84 of July 22, 1919, Session Laws, p. 684, provides as follows:

“Sec. 178. — Issues of fact in cases of felony and in cases of misdemeanor, when the information- was originally filed in the District Court and the municipal courts also had jurisdiction of the same, shall be tried by jury if the accused or any one of them so elect and