United States v. Mutarielli

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The defendant appeals from his conviction in the district court on four indictments which charged him with selling meat at over ceiling prices in violation of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942. He operates both a slaughterhouse and a retail meat market in Philadelphia. Two of the indictments charged him with making sales of beef at wholesale in violation of Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 169.1 The other two charged retail sales of beef in violation of Maximum Price Regulation No. 355.2

As to the wholesale sales the defendant asserts that he is a nonprocessing…