Weeks v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Oscar J. Weeks, doing business under the name of O. J. Weeks & Co. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant has been convicted of a crime committed in violation of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, approved June 30, 1906 (Act June 30, 1906, c. 3915, 34 Stat. 768 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1354]). The information charged the *293defendant with having shipped from New York City to St. Louis, Mo., a certain article of food, labeled in part as follows:
“Cream thiols — Serial No. 2049 — Manufactured by O. J. Weeks & Co., New York, New York. It is guaranteed to contain no gelatine, gum arable, egg albumen or similar article.”
This label, it was charged, was false and…
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