State v. Hem

The defendant was convicted under section 3189 of the Revised Codes of 1921, which makes it unlawful “to sell, barter, exchange, distribute, give away, or in any manner dispose of, at retail, or to a consumer, opium or coca leaves, or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation thereof, within this state, except upon the original written prescription of a duly licensed physician.” The specific charge in the in*60formation is that he did “■willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously sell and dispose of certain narcotics, drugs, to-wit, two (2) cards of smoking opium and one bindle or…