State v. Goldstein

It will be observed that the act makes “profiteering” a crime, the penalty for which is a maximum fine of $5,000, and imprisonment at hard labor for the county for not exceeding two years, and also subjects the “profiteer” to a civil suit, to be instituted by the Attorney General in the name of tire state, wherein may he recovered such damages “as the jury see fit to assess.”

Section 2 of the act defines the offense of “profiteering” as “the selling or offering for sale of any article or commodity of food, clothing, fuel or other necessity of life with the intent of obtaining fraudulent or…