State v. Poole

Appeal from an order of dismissal upon sustaining a plea of former jeopardy. The facts upon which the court below based its ruling are these; On August 8, 1910, an information was filed against respondent, charging him with a violation of the adulterated food act, as found in Laws 1907, p. 478, ch. 211 (Rem. & Bal. Code, § 5453 et seq.). The offense charged was under subdivision 6 of § 3 (Id., § 5455), in selling “a quantity of veal, which said veal was then and there wholly the product of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, to wit, a calf unfit for food.” Upon this…