United States v. William H. Rorer, Inc.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This was a criminal prosecution under Section 2 of the Food and Drug Act, as amended, 21 U.S.C.A. § 2. It was tried to the Court, a jury trial having been waived. The facts are quite simple and, by the verdict which I shall enter, they are determined as follows:

The defendant sold a bottle containing 100 four-grain thyroid tablets. The label represented that the tablets contained an average of two grains of thyroid each. I *672find as a fact that the tablets contained an average of not less than two and forty-one hundredths grains of the essential thyroid element — an…