Commonwealth v. Pflaum
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 218, Oct. T., 1911, by plaintiff, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., March Sessions, 1911, No. 747, arresting judgment in case of Commonwealth v. Christian Pflaum, Jr. Indictment for violating the Act of May 13, 1909, P. L. 520, in selling fifty candy marshmallow cocoanut pies containing sulphur dioxide. The case turned on the constitutionality of the Act of May 13, 1909, P. L. 520. Error assigned was the order arresting judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Hendekson, J.,
The defendant was convicted on the first and second counts of an indictment which charged him with selling *58confectionery which contained sulphur dioxide, in violation of the Act of May 13, 1909, P. L. 520. This act is entitled, “An Act relating to food; defining food; providing for the protection of the public health and the prevention of fraud and deception by prohibiting the manufacture or sale, the offering for sale or exposing for sale, or the having in possession with intent to sell of adulterated, misbranded or deleterious foods; prescribing certain duties for…
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