21360. Adulteration of   peKans.      U.   S.   v.   Hendrick   I*.   Cromartle.      Plea
of nolo contendere. Fine, $25 on each of five counts. Execution 
of sentence suspended on counts 2 to 5, inclusive, and defendant 
placed on probation for one year. (F. & D.' no. 29529. I.S. nos. 
47734, 50649, 50650, 53876, 53936.) 
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This case involved various shipments of pecans which contained an excessive 
proportion of inedible nuts, consisting of wormy, rotten or moldy, rancid or 
decomposed, and shriveled or empty nuts.
On August 7, 1933, the United States attorney for the Middle District of 
Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture. filed in the dis- 
trict court an information against Hendrick L. Cromartie, Albany, Ga., alleg- 
ing shipment hy said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, in 
various consignments between March 3 and March 11, 1932, from the State of 
Georgia into the State of Missouri, of quantities of pecan nuts which were 
adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that it 
consisted in whole and in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
substance.
On September 29, 1933, the defendant, entered a plea of nolo contendere to 
the information, and on October 3, 1933, the court imposed a fine of $25 on 
each of the five counts. Execution of sentence was suspended on counts 2 to 
5, inclusive, and defendant was placed on probation for one year as to the 
violations covered by said counts.
M. L. WZLSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.