People v. Jennings

This is a prosecution under the pure food law, so called. The respondent was convicted under an information charging him with selling a compound as *664a lemon extract which was adulterated, within the meaning of Act No. 193, Pub. Acts 1895, as amended, and was a compound in imitation of extract of lemon. The respondent was convicted, and brings the case up on exceptions before sentence.

The evidence introduced on the trial by the respondent tended to show that lemon oil contains from 3 to 10 per cent, of citral, so called, and upwards of 90 per cent, of so called terpenes; that these terpenes…