Como ya lo he dicho antes, soy abogado por profesión.
La carrera en mi universidad tenía como característica principal ser más teórico que practico por lo que en cierto punto de mis estudios consideré pertinente conseguir un trabajo que me permitiera ganar más experiencia en mi rubro, y por cosas de la vida conseguí un trabajo como relator de sentencias en un Tribunal de apelaciones. Ahí lo más particular que sucedía eran los casos en sí mismos y con esto me refiero a las características a veces subreales que tienen los problemas que llegan a esas instancias jurisdiccionales.
Pero ese no es el tema hoy.
Hoy les quiero comentar sobre un suceso que paso en las vacaciones del año 2019, y es que, para ese entonces tenía menos de un año en mi trabajo, por lo que cuando llego el lapso de vacaciones generales yo no podía optar a ellas por no tener la antigüedad requerida. Es ahí donde debo trabajar en un tribunal de guardia durante el periodo de vacaciones.
Durante ese tiempo no hice mucho. Principalmente ayude con el tribunal y con el inventario del mismo. Es curioso, ese tribunal tenía expedientes de los años 30 y 40 y estos debían ser inventariados.
El trabajo físico fue fuerte, ya que teníamos que limpiar y organizar un archivo judicial que tenía décadas, y en medio de ello mis compañeros y yo conseguimos algo súper extraño: dos escopetas que por sus características parecían ser de las primeras décadas del siglo XX, ya que tenía un cañón alargado, y con ellas una banderilla para comprimir la pólvora (es decir, no usaban balas como las actuales sino que se asemejaban a las escopetas de las películas de la guerra civil donde debían demorarse en llenar primero la escopeta de pólvora y luego colocar los balines).
Estas estaban debajo de una parte del archivo judicial, pero lo cierto es que nadie supo asegurar de que época eran esas armas, o quien las trajo, sin embargo, lo más lógico es pensar que debido a que en los años 30 ese tribunal no solo era civil sino también penal, estas eran usadas como medidas de seguridad en caso de la presentación de los imputados.
Luego que las conseguimos, terminamos de limpiar el archivo judicial y decidimos ponerlas en una pared del mismo de forma decorativa, pero debido a que ya han pasado un par de años desde eso no puedo asegurar que esas armas sigan ahí.
Con el tiempo y visitando otros tribunales no pude volver a conseguir algo similar o tuve testimonios de nada similar por parte de otros funcionarios judiciales, por lo que considero ese descubrimiento uno de los sucesos más extraños o curiosos de mi carrera como funcionario judicial.
As I have said before, I am a lawyer by profession.
The main characteristic of my university career was to be more theoretical than practical, so at a certain point in my studies I considered it pertinent to get a job that would allow me to gain more experience in my field, and as life would have it, I got a job as a reporter of sentences in a Court of Appeals. There, the most particular thing that happened were the cases themselves, and by this I mean the sometimes sub-real characteristics of the problems that reach those jurisdictional instances.
But that is not the subject today.
Today I want to tell you about an event that happened during the 2019 vacation, and it is that, at that time I had less than a year in my job, so when the general vacation period arrived, I was not eligible for it because I did not have the required seniority. That's when I had to work in an on-call court during the vacation period.
During that time I didn't do much. I mainly helped with the court and the inventory of the court. Funny, that court had records from the 1930s and 1940s and these had to be inventoried.
The physical work was heavy, as we had to clean and organize a court file that was decades old, and in the middle of it my colleagues and I got something super strange: two shotguns that by their characteristics seemed to be from the first decades of the twentieth century, since they had an elongated barrel, and with them a banderilla to compress the gunpowder (that is, they did not use bullets like the current ones but resembled the shotguns of the civil war films where they had to delay in filling the shotgun with gunpowder first and then place the pellets).
These were under a part of the judicial archive, but the truth is that no one knew for sure what era these weapons were from, or who brought them, however, the most logical thing is to think that because in the 30's that court was not only civil but also criminal, these were used as security measures in case of the presentation of the accused.
After we got them, we finished cleaning the judicial archive and decided to put them on a wall of the archive for decoration, but since it has been a couple of years since then I can't be sure that these weapons are still there.
With time and visiting other courts I could not get anything similar again or had testimonies of anything similar from other judicial officers, so I consider that discovery one of the strangest or curious events of my career as a judicial officer.
That shotgun looks old. Was it loaded when you found it? Hopefully, not! My grandfather owns one which looks similar to that so I'm guessing that was made in the 1940's but I could be wrong. This is a an interesting find indeed!
Hello!
The gun was not loaded, when it was found it only had its frame and a rod that served to push the powder. I think that its time is close to the decade of the forties since more or less in those years began to operate the court in question.