United States v. Steiner

BALTZELL, District Judge.

Defendants-appellants, hereinafter referred to as defendants, were each convicted of the violation of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 and of a regulation of the Office of Price Administration in that they, being auctioneers, sold at public auction sales certain agricultural implements at prices in excess of the maximum or ceiling prices of such implements, as fixed by such law and regulation. Because of the similarity of the offenses and of the evidence upon which defendants were convicted, the two appeals were consolidated for the purpose of the arguments in…