Pierce v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal as upon Writ of Error, from the Criminal Court of Baltimore. Bichard B. Pierce was indicted under the Act of 1884, ch. 243, for unlawfully having in his possession a certain substance and article in semblance of butter, not the legitimate and direct product of the dairy, and not made exclusively from milk or cream, with intent to sell the same by retail, without delivering to the purchaser thereof, a printed, written, or stencilled label, bearing the printed, written,…
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Appeal as upon Writ of Error, from the Criminal Court of Baltimore. Bichard B. Pierce was indicted under the Act of 1884, ch. 243, for unlawfully having in his possession a certain substance and article in semblance of butter, not the legitimate and direct product of the dairy, and not made exclusively from milk or cream, with intent to sell the same by retail, without delivering to the purchaser thereof, a printed, written, or stencilled label, bearing the printed, written, or stencilled word “ Oleomargarine,” in plain Roman letters, &c. The indictment was demurred to. The Court (Fisher,…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The Act of 1884, ch. 248, provides that every person who shall manufacture for sale, or who shall offer for sale, any article or substance, known as oleomargarine, shall cause every parcel or package, to be stamped in plain Roman letters, “ Olbomab.gab.ine and that every retailer shall cause every package sold by him to be stamped in the like manner.
Sec. 2 provides that every person who shall sell, or offer to sell, or have in his possession, with intent to sell, the article known as oleomargarine without being stamped as required by section first, and that every retailer who sells a package…
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