| Show 1 penalty for farmer who violated order a i As example of the severe penalty i to be meted out for violation I 1 of the livestock slaughter permit order the following article is offered by the county committee citizens are urged to observe the law which governs butchery and sale of meat in order to ta avoid similar sentence washington july 5 A farmer theologus grillis of jackson miss pleaded guilty july 1 in U S district court southern district of mississippi to a charge of killing livestock without a permit and was fined in addition he was given a six months jail sentence which was suspended on condition that he pay the fine he was placed on probation for six months in announcing the courts decision officials served notice that violations of the livestock slaughter permit order food distribution trib ution order 27 will be investigated thoroughly and that those found guilty will be brought to speedy justice on june 11 grillis also pleaded guilty in the circuit court of hinds county miss to a charge of offering for sale as human food meat which was unclean and unfit for human consumption he was sentenced to two years in the st state ate penitentiary and is now serving erving this sentence evidence disclosed disclosed that grillis who had n no 0 permit to slaughter on april 8 1943 killed a diseased hog at ai his farm and had it delivered to the grillis grill which he operated in jackson the meat was condemned by local authorities and destroyed I 1 grillis maintained no records of I 1 livestock sales another violation of the permit order and he entered into an agreement on april 6 forthe sale of a cow and a calf to a purchaser who accepted delivery four persons in sworn state 1 ments admitted that grillis grilli s had offered ahem inducements to give false information about the diseased I 1 hog |
