State v. Atkinson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before PRESSLEY, J., York, November, 1889. This was an indictment against Dennis C. Atkinson for unlawfully giving a prescription for beer.
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Before PRESSLEY, J., York, November, 1889. This was an indictment against Dennis C. Atkinson for unlawfully giving a prescription for beer. During the cross-examination by the solicitor of one of defendant’s witnesses, the following occurred: “By the Court: Now, Mr. Roumillat, do you swear solemnly, upon your oath, that this whole matter was not pretensive; not by previous arrangement between you and Dr. Atkinson, and that you kept him there for that purpose? Witness: I swear before God that it is not so. Q. You don’t keep him there for that purpose? A. Yes, sir; I will swear to that. Q. And…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McIver.
The defendant having been convicted *106under an indictment charging that he, “being a physician, unlawfully did give a prescription for spirituous or intoxicating liquors, to wit, one dozen bottles of beer, to one II. Moultrie Bratton, he, the said Dennis C. Atkinson, not then and there being in actual bona ficle attendance upon the said R. Moultrie Bratton as a patient,” appeals upon numerous grounds set out in the record, which are too long to be inserted here. Indeed, it is scarcely necessary to consider them in detail; for, although…
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