22688. Alleged   Adulteration of  apples.    U.   S.  v.   Lawrence   Acree   Riggs.
Tried  to the  court.    Judgment  of not  guilty.    (F.  & D. no.  31385. 
Sample no. 25314-A.)
On May 3, 1934, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Lawrence Acree Riggs, Springdale, Ark., 
alleging that on or about September 28, 1982, the defendant had sold and 
delivered at Springdale, Ark., under a guaranty that they were not adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, a number of baskets of apples; that 
the apples in the identical condition in which they had been so sold and 
delivered were transported in interstate commerce, into the State of Texas; 
and that they were adulterated in violation of the said act.
It was alleged in the information that the apples were adulterated in that 
they contained added poisonous and deleterious substances, arsenic and lead, 
which might have rendered them injurious to health.
On June 12, 1934, a jury trial having been waived, the defendant was tried 
to the court and was found not guilty.
M. L.  WILSON,  Acting Secretary of Agriculture.