United States v. Lutz

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was indicted on two counts for buying and selling Maine selected seed potatoes at prices higher than the maximum price permitted by Maximum Price Regulation No. 271 and § 4 of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 904(a). Pie was acquitted on the second count for selling, but found guilty on the first count which charged him with having “bought and received” seed potatoes at prices above the permitted máximums. Defendant has appealed from the judgment of conviction and sentence.

The underlying facts giving rise to the prosecution…