United States v. Myatt

CONNOR, District Judge.

The grand jury returned a bill of indictment in which it presented that defendant, on December 20, 1919—

“while doing business as a retail grocer in the city of Raleigh and during the existence of a state of war involving the United States, and while the United States was at war with Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary, the said W. A. Myatt knowingly, unlawfully, and willfully, in handling and dealing in certain necessaries, to wit, granulated sugar, did make an unjust and unreasonable charge; that is to say, the said W. A. Myatt did then and there as such retail grocer…