M. Kraus & Bros., Inc. v. United States

announced the conclusion and judgment of the Court.

The problem here is whether the petitioner corporation was properly convicted of a crime under the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942.1

The petitioner is engaged in the wholesale meat and poultry business in New York City. Poultry is a commodity subject to the provision^ of Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 269,2 promulgated by the Price Administrator pursuant to § 2 (a) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942. Two informations, each containing six counts, were filed against petitioner. Each count alleged that, as an integral part of a…