United States v. Sprague
District Court, E.D. New York
Criminal prosecution by the United States against Smith Sprague and George W. Doughty, for violation of the Food and Drugs Act. On motion to quash and demurrer to information.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIEDD, District Judge.
The defendants have been brought into court upon an information filed under Act June 30, 1906, c. 3915, 34 Stats. 768 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1354), known as the Pure Food and Drugs Act. The precise charge is that the defendants, as copartners, shipped from Far Rockaway, N. Y., to the state of Pennsylvania, 10 barrels of oysters, upon the 12th day of October, 1911; that the oysters were “adulterated” in that they “consisted in part of' filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal and vegetable substance,” and that the oysters were an article of food, as…
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