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PEOPLE v. ZERILLO

Docket No. Crim. 5087.

36 Cal.2d 222 (1950)

223 P.2d 223

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. LORENZO ZERILLO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 24, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold C. Faulkner, A.J. Zirpoli and Melvin, Faulkner, Sheehan & Wiseman for Appellant.

Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, David K. Lener, Deputy Attorney General, Edmund G. Brown, District Attorney (San Francisco), and Norman Elkington, Assistant District Attorney, for Respondent.

GIBSON, C.J.

Defendant, president of Riverbank Canning Company, was convicted of offering a bribe to Milton P. Duffy, Chief of the Bureau of Food and Drug Inspection of the State of California, and he has appealed from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

In 1944 the bureau quarantined several thousand cases of canned tomato paste packed by the Riverbank Canning Company, and 1,861 cases...

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