State v. Bockstruck
Decision Date | 15 December 1896 |
Citation | 38 S.W. 317,136 Mo. 335 |
Parties | The State v. Bockstruck, Appellant |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction. Hon. David Murphy, Judge.
This prosecution is based on an act of the legislature approved April 22, 1895, and found in the laws of Missouri of that year, pages 26 et seq., which act will be presently quoted.
The amended information on which defendant was prosecuted, is the following: It charged that he, "on the thirty-first day of July, 1895, did unlawfully sell, keep for sale and offer for sale a certain imitation of butter, to wit, a substance which was then and there composed of animal fat, vegetable oil and other substances compounded with butter, and also compounded with other substances which are to the informant unknown, for the purpose and with the effect of imparting thereto a yellow color and a shade of yellow, so that the same then and there resembled and was in imitation of genuine yellow butter," etc.
The statute to which reference has been made is as follows:
Defendant unsuccessfully moved to quash the information, which motion being denied, he pleaded not guilty to the charge and waived a jury, whereupon the cause was tried by the court upon the following testimony:
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