United States v. Johnson

PHILIPS, District Judge.

The defendant has filed motion to quash the indictment, for the principal reason that it does not disclose an indictable offense. It is predicated of what is known as the “Pure Food and Drug Act,” entitled “An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors', and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.” Approved June 30, 1906. Act June 30, 1906, c. 3915, 34 Stat. 768 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1909, p. 1187). It contains six counts....The first count,…