Re Guzmán and Latamble

• Jurisdicción: Cuba
• Número de expediente: Case No. 43
• Fecha: 12 Febrero 1934
• Emisor: Corte Suprema (Cuba)

Cuba, Supreme Court.

Case No. 43

In re Guzmán and Latamble.

Territory — International Leases — United States Naval Station on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba — Whether Foreign Territory in relation to Cuba.

The Facts.—The defendants had been found guilty of importing three hogs from the United States naval station at Caimanera, on Guantánamo Bay, into a neighbouring place in Cuba, without payment of customs duties. The defendants claimed that the hogs had already been in Cuba when they were at the naval station, and therefore that they had not brought them in without payment of duties. Upon appeal by the defendants,

Held: that the conviction must be affirmed, for “the territory of that Naval Station...