14399. Adulteration of scallops. TJ. S. v. Lee Mears. Tried to the court and a jury. Verdict of guilty. Pine, $150. (F. & D. No. 19749. I. S. No. 4890-x.) On March 22, 1926, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district an information against Lee Mears, Oyster, Va., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about December 18, 1925, from the State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, of a quantity of scallops which were adulterated. Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed with the said article so as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and had been substituted in part for scallops, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, scallop solids, had been in part abstracted. On May 17, 1926, the case came on for trial before the court and a jury. After the submission of evidence and arguments by counsel the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the court imposed a fine of $150. W. M. JAKDINE, Secretary of Agriculture. \