Legal Opinion
In Re Hixson
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 28, 1923No. Crim. No. 905PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFinlayson, P. J.
Petitioner, a licensed pharmacist doing business in the city of Los Angeles, asks a discharge on habeas corpus from imprisonment under a sentence convicting him of filling a prescription for alcoholic liquor in violation of an initiative measure adopted by the electors of the city and commonly known as the Gandier ordinance. The ordinance was adopted prior to the ratification of the eighteenth amendment and the passage of the national prohibition law. A complaint was filed in the police court charging petitioner with filling a physician’s prescription calling for more than eight ounces of…
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