8515.?Adulteration of shell eggs.  V. S.  *  *  *  v. George H. Hardin and George O. Bearden
(G. H. Hardin & Co.).   Tried to a jury.   Verdict or guilty.   Fine, $30 and costs.   (F. &?
D. No. 11602.   I. S. No. 9437-r.)
On December 11, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the' United States for said district an information against George H. Hardin?
and George O. Bearden, copartners, trading as G. H. Hardin & Co., alleging shipment?
by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 1, 1919,?
from the State of Arkansas into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of eggs which were?
adulterated.
Examination of the 2 cases shipped, 180 from each case, by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this department showed 40 inedible eggs, or 11.1 per cent.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that it?
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On June 9, 1920, the case having come on for trial before the court and a jury, after?
the submission of evidence and arguments by counsel, the jury was charged by the?
court and, after due deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty, and the court imposed?
a fine of $20 and costs!
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.