Minnesota v. Barber
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED 'STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner had been convicted of a violation, of the statute of Minnesota respecting the inspection of fresh meats which will be found at length in the opinion of the court {post 318). The State of Indiana having passed a similar statute, counsel intervened on behalf of that State and took part in the argument of this ease.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED 'STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner had been convicted of a violation, of the statute of Minnesota respecting the inspection of fresh meats which will be found at length in the opinion of the court {post 318). The State of Indiana having passed a similar statute, counsel intervened on behalf of that State and took part in the argument of this ease. The Indiana statute will be found in the margin 1. The petitioner was discnarged from custody, the court below holding the act to be an…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
delivered’ the opinion of the court.
Henry E. Barber, the appellee, was convicted before a justice of the peace in Bamsey County, Minnesota,. of ’ the offence of having wrongfully and unlawfully offered and ' exposed for sale, and of having sold, for human food, one hundred pounds of fresh un cured beef, part of an animal • slaughtered in the State of Illinois, but which had not been inspected in Minnesota, and “ certified ” before slaughter by an inspector appointed under the laws of the latter State. Hav- • ing been committed to the common jail of the county pursuant to a judgment of…
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