Alcorn Cotton Oil Co. v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie circuit court of Alcorn county. Hon. Jno. H. Mitchell, Judge. The Alcorn.Cotton Oil Company was convicted of violating the laws against the adulteration of cotton seed meal and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the c’ourt.
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Appeal from tlie circuit court of Alcorn county. Hon. Jno. H. Mitchell, Judge. The Alcorn.Cotton Oil Company was convicted of violating the laws against the adulteration of cotton seed meal and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the c’ourt. The indictment under which the appellant was tried and convicted charged the following: “James Sloane, of Corinth, in said county of Alcorn, being then and there engaged in the business, among other things of manufacturing, sacking and selling cotton seed meal, did, then and there, willfully and unlawfully adulterate cotton seed meal by…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield,' C.
Section 1317 of the Code of 1906 is in the following words: “It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to adulterate any cotton seed meal with hulls, *304sawdust or anything else, without noting such adulteration,; in plain and legible characters on each sack, and it shall be unlawful for any person to sell in this state any cotton seed meal adulterated with hulls, sawdust or anything else, without such adulteration being noted in plain and legible characters on each sack or receptacle thereof. Any person or corporation violating the foregoing provisions of this section…
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