Merritt v. State

— This is an appeal from a judgment of the Vanderburgh Circuit Court convicting the appellant of the offense of violating Section 17 of the Indiana Uniform Narcotic Drug Act, which provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to obtain or attempt to obtain a narcotic drug by fraud, deceit or the use of a false name. The appellant was charged as follows:

“FRANK M. FREIHAUT being duly sworn upon his oath says that JAMES MERRITT on or about the 7th day of JUNE A. D., 1962, at said County and State as affiant verily believes did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, knowingly and falsely *364by…