4876. Adulteration of' dressed poultry.     IT.  S. v.  Benjamin Weiner and Julius
Weiner (Marshall Produce Co.).    Pleas of guilty.   Each defendant fined
$500.    (F. D. C. No. 7212.    Sample Nos. 31246-E, 31247-E.)
This case was based upon interstate shipments of poultry, samples Of which 
were found to be diseased, emaciated, bruised, and discolored in the abdominal 
walls and thorax. ¦ -        ' ¦
On September 18, 1942, the grand jurors of the United States in and for the 
District of Minnesota presented an indictment against Benjamin Weiner and 
Julius Weiner, trading as the Marshall Produce Co. at Marshall, Minn., charging 
shipment within the period from on or about November 30, 1940, to February 6, 
1941, from the State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois of quantities of poultry 
that was adulterated in that it was in whole or in part the product of diseased 
animals.
The indictment charged further that prior to such shipment, on or about No- 
vember 16,1940, the defendants had been convicted in the District Court for the 
District of Minnesota of a similar offense in the shipment from the State of 
Minnesota into the State of New York on or about August 19,1939, of a quantity 
of poultry which was adulterated.
On> February 4, 1943, pleas of guilty having been entered, the court imposed a 
fine of $50o against each defendant.