Bowen v. United States

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted on four counts-of an information, filed June 5, 1947, charging him with committing four separate offenses between November 8, 1946, and February 7, 1947, in selling sugar ration stamps contrary to Ration Order No. 8. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $2,000' on each count.

He contended in the Court below and here: (1) that he, a wholesaler and retailer *534of sugar who acquired sugar ration stamps under the historical use formula — which formula had been held invalid as to industrial users of sugar by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia1 —…