Supreme Court of the United States January 19, 1891, 1154 (Brimmer v. Rebman)

Mr. Justice Harlan

delivered the opinion of the court.

William Rebman was tried and convicted before a justice of the peace in Norfolk, Virginia, “ a city of fifteen thousand inhabitants or more,” of the offence of having wrongfully, unlawfully,1 and knowingly sold and offered for sale “eight-teen pounds of fresh meat, to wit, fresh, uncured beef, the same being the property of Armour & Co.