United States v. M. Kraus & Bros.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant corporation was fined $2,500 on each of nine counts* for violating Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 269, Sec. 1429.5, announced pursuant to Title 50, U.S.C.A. § 901, et seq. It required purchasers of poultry, so it is charged, to buy unwanted commodities, i.e., chicken feet and chicken skin, in order to obtain regular poultry. The jury found the individual defendant not guilty and the corporation, guilty.

*774The fines were assessed at the rate of $2,500 for each of the nine counts on which the defendant corporation was found guilty. There was some evidence that…