Commonwealth v. Bates

Rowley, P. J.,

Defendant was convicted in summary proceedings before a justice of the peace upon a charge of selling food, to wit, maple syrup, alleged to have been adulterated.

*241The prosecution is based upon the Act of June 1, 1937, P. L. 1127, 31 PS §1, which amended prior statutes. The information charges violation of subsection 6 of section 3 of that statute. The pertinent portions of the statute are:

Section 1. “. . . it shall be unlawful ... to manufacture, sell . . . any article of food which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act.”

Section 2. “ (a) ... for the purpose…