State v. Seattle & Puget Sound Packing Co.

Citations

• 82 Wash. 460
• 144 P. 694
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1542

Syllabus

<p>Food — Sale' of Impure Food — Criminal Prosecution — Evidence —Sufficiency. In a prosecution for selling impure food, evidence of chemists that canned meat, which had been sold by accused on May 14, contained bacteria showing the first stages of decomposition two months later, after it had been exposed for that length of time on a retailer’s shelves, is insufficient to sustain a verdict of guilty; since_ it must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the meats were impure on the day of sale.</p>