Stein

An amended information (information) containing seventeen counts charged Jacob R. Stein, appellant herein, with the doing of acts in violation of War Production Board (WPB) General Preference Order M-9-a, promulgated pursuant to the Second War Powers Act, Public Law 507, 77th Congress, Chapter 199, 2d Session, 56 Stat. 177 , 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 633. Counts 4 and 11 were dismissed; the jury found defendant not guilty as to Count 1; he was convicted and sentenced as to the remaining fourteen.

Each comit charged that appellant on a certain date, the dates ranging from December 3, 1942, to March 16, 1943, did wilfully and unlawfully deliver a stated quantity of a wire mill product, namely copper wire, to a purchaser; that said delivery was not made to fill an order bearing appropriate allocation classification and purchaser’s symbol and bearing a preference rating of AA-5 or higher, or bearing any allocation classification, purchaser’s symbol or preference rating whatsoever; that said delivery was not expressly authorized by the Director General for Operations; that appellant thereby wilfully diverted said wire mill product from the war effort of the United States.

Appellant was…