Zimberg v. United States

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal from judgments sentencing the defendants to fines and imprisonment after they had been found guilty by a jury of violating § 4(a) of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, 56 Stat. 28, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 904(a), by making sales of beef at prices in excess of those prescribed by Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 169.

It appears that on the dates of the violations alleged in the indictment the de fendants as co-partners were engaged in the wholesale meat business in Springfield, Massachusetts, under the name of Hampden Beef Company,…