Zinns v. State

Appellant stands charged with having *397violated section. 2201, R. S. 1881 (section 2349, Burns Rev. 1894), which reads as follows :

‘£ Whoever knowingly sells, or directs or permits any person in his employ to sell, any property, and makes or gives any false or short weight or measure of such property; and any person owning or having charge of scales, measures or steelyards for the purpose of weighing or measuring any property, who knowingly reports any false or untrue weight or measure, whereby any person may be defrauded or injured, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars nor less…