State v. Anthony

The circuit court on motion- of the defendant quashed the indictment in this cause, and the state has appealed.

Omitting the formal parts, the indictment charged “that, on the seventh day of July, 1891, at and in said county (Crawford), one L. A. Anthony, then a physician engaged in the practice of medicine, did then and there unlawfully make out and issue to one George Matlock a prescription for intoxicating -liquor, to be used otherwise than for medical purposes, against the peace and dignity of the state.” Then, follow other *508counts of like tenor, charging the defendant with issuing other…