In re McAllister
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland
At Law. Petition by Charles E. McAllister for writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner had been convicted in a Maryland court of the offense of selling'oleomargarine, and the judgment was affirmed in the state supreme court. See 20 Atl. Rep. 143.
1Opinion of the Court
Bond, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner has been arrested and indicted by the proper authorities of the city of Baltimore, and is now in jail, his bail having surrendered him. The indictment is for a violation of Code Pub. Gen. Laws Md. art. 27, §§ 88-91, inclusive, relating to the . sale of oleomargarine.1 It contains three counts. The first charges that petitioner did sell to one Simon N. Miller, as an article of food, 10 pounds of an article manufactured out of an oleaginous substance designed to take the' place of butter. The second count charges that petitioner offered to sell to Simon N.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Low v. AustinSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
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