Commonwealth v. Crowl
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 71, April T., 1913, by defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Erie Co., Sept. Sessions, 1911, No. 32, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. A. B. Crowl and W. F. Lewis.
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Appeal, No. 71, April T., 1913, by defendants, from judgment of Q. S. Erie Co., Sept. Sessions, 1911, No. 32, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. A. B. Crowl and W. F. Lewis. Indictment for violation of the Ice Cream Act of March 24, 1909, P. L. 63. Before Walling, P. J. At the trial it appeared that G. M. Pelton, a witness for the commonwealth, and one of the special agents of the dairy and food department, had purchased from the defendants a pint of chocolate ice cream, and that a subsequent analysis of the ice cream thus bought showed that it was below the standard in butter…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Hendebson, J.,
The first proposition presented by the appellant is that the title of the Act of March 24,1909, P. L. 63, does not comply with the requirements of sec. 3 of art. Ill of the constitution of Pennsylvania in that it does not give sufficient notice of the provisions of sec. 4 of the statute under which the indictment was drawn. The title to the act is: “An Act for the protection of the public health and to prevent fraud and deception in the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale and having in possession with intent to sell, of adulterated or deleterious…
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