21255. Adulteration of walnuts.    17.  S. v. Louis Groobman  (Whittier 'Wal¬
nut Packing: Co.). Tried to the court and a jury. Verdict for 
the Government. Fine, 850 and costs. (F. & D. no. 29407. I.S. no. 
41291.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of walnuts that were found to 
be in part wormy, moldy, rancid, and shriveled.
On January 18, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Louis Groobman, trading as the Whittier 
Walnut Packing Co., Whittier, Calif., alleging shipment by said defendant on 
or about December 3, 1931, from the State of California into the State of 
Nebraska of a quantity of walnuts that were adulterated. The article was 
labeled in part: " California Walnuts Evergreen Packed By Whittier Walnut 
Packing Co., Whittier, Calif."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that it 
consisted in part of filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable and animal 
substances.
On July 26, 1933, the case having come on for trial before a jury and evidence 
having been introduced on behalf of the defendant and the Government, the 
jury returned a verdict of guilty, and on July 31, 1933, the court sentenced the 
defendant to pay a fine of $50 and costs in the amount of $680.68.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.