Wilton

An information in seven counts was filed in the district court, charging Hugh Wilton with violations of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 901 et seq. The cause proceeded to a jury trial, during which Count 2 was dismissed upon motion of the government. A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury as to each of the remaining counts, and sentence upon each thereof was pronounced. Wilton appeals.

Count 1 of the information, which is quoted in the margin, 1 is typical of the oth *434 ers, differing, in names, dates, amounts et cetera.

Appellant was the operator and in charge of the renting and offering for rent of premises at 435 and 441 North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, consisting of an apartment house or houses. He filed-with the local Office of Price Administration registration statements for rental dwellings showing the rentals charged therefor on March 1, 1942, and they were approved. Subsequently, he attempted to re-register the premises, registered as apartment houses, as rooming houses. (The statements upon which the original registration yvas based, and the statement concerning the proposed re-registration, were introduced into…