Court Opinion

ID: 9651727
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:33:32.621898+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:38.465933
License: Public Domain

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge
(concurring and dissenting).
I concur in the affirmance of the judgment pronounced by virtue of conviction under counts one, three and four of the indictment. I dissent as to the reversal of the judgment pronounced by virtue of conviction under count two of the indictment. I think the indictment states separate offenses as to counts one and two.
If I am wrong in this, and I think I am not, then I am at a loss to know by what authority this court elects to affirm the judgment under count one rather than under count two. Here are two separate convictions under separate counts for which the court pronounced two separate penalties. The majority state that the counts are based upon different acts. I quote from the opinion. “The first count was predicated on falsity arising out of shipping adulterated food under a guaranty. The second count was predicated on falsity arising out of misbranding.” The fact that the court thought the defendants should be punished as severely for one as for the other infraction does not solve the difficulty. If the trial court had given twice the penalty under count one that it did under count two, by what token would the court decide to affirm as to one and reverse as to the other?