PEOPLE OF PORTO RICO, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR AND PETITIONERS,

v.

JOSE MURATTI

Citator

Cited By

• Balzac v. People of Porto RICO, 258 U.S. 298 (U.S. 1922)
  …he purpose of Congress to incorporate Porto Rico into the United States with the consenuences which would follow. This court has passed on substantially the same questions presented here in two cases, Porto Rico v. Tapia, and Porto Rico v. Muratti, 245 U. S. 639. In the former, the question was whether one who was charged with committing a felonious homicide some twelve days after the passage of the Organic Act in 1917, could be brought to trial without an indictment of a grand jury as required by the Fifth…
• Fermin Fonseca Flores v. Prann, 282 F.2d 153 (1st Cir. 1960)
  …v. Bidwell, 1901, 182 U.S. 1, 21 S.Ct. 743, 45 L.Ed. 1041, and Downes v. Bidwell, 1901, 182 U.S. 244, 21 S.Ct. 770, 45 L.Ed. 1088, and subsequent cases confirming and applying their doctrine, see cases cited in People of Puerto Rico v. Tapia, 1918, 245 U.S. 639, 38 S.Ct. 192, 62 L.Ed. 525. . Law 600, 64 Stat. 319; 48 U.S.C.A. § 731 et seq.…
• Porto RICO Brokerage Co., Inc. v. United States, 71 F.2d 469 (C.C.P.A. 1934)
  …United States, 197 U. S. 516, 25 S. Ct. 514, 49 L. Ed. 862; New York ex rel. Kopel v. Bingham, 211 U. S. 468, 29 S. Ct. 190, 53 L. Ed. 286; Porto Rico v. Rosaly y Castillo, 227 U. S. 270, 33 S. Ct. 352, 57 L. Ed. 507; People of Porto Rico v. Tapia, 245 U. S. 639, 38 S. Ct. 192, 62 L. Ed. 525. Section 57 of the Organic Act of Puerto Rico, 48 U. S. C. § 735 (48 USCA § 735), provides: [*471] “ * * * The laws and ordinances of Porto Rico in force on March 2, 1917, shall continue in force and effect, except as…