State v. Land-O-Sun Dairies, Inc.

Cooper, Judge.

This appeal originates from a criminal indictment obtained by the State against two dairies and an individual employee of each dairy. The indictment charged the defendants with conspiracy in restraint of trade in the sale of milk to certain public school districts and detailed specific acts of bid rigging involving the defendants in the sale of milk to the school boards. On the day the trial of the case was scheduled to begin, the trial court heard argument on the defendants’ motion in limine to exclude the testimony of two óf the State’s witnesses. The witnesses were two former…