People v. Sharrar
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Gratiot; Searl, J. George E. Sharrar was convicted of violating the local-option law, and sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and to imprisonment for 20 days in the county jail.
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
Respondent was a druggist doing business at Alma, Mich. On the 2d day of October, 1908, one Simon Oberlin, a farmer who resided some five miles from Alma, delivered to the respondent a prescription signed by a physician of the city which called for 8 ounces of whisky containing 10 grains of quinine. Respondent filled the prescription, placing a label on the bottle bearing the number of the prescription and the name of the physician who prescribed, and delivered it to Oberlin. The local-option law (Act No. 207, Pub. Acts 1889) was in force in the county of Gratiot, in which the city of Alma…
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