Chapman v. State

l. A medicinal preparation capable of being used as a beverage, and which contains such a percentage of alcohol as that 'if drunk to excess iit will produce intoxication, is within the meaning of an act which prohibits 'the sale of “spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors” without taking out a specified *312license; and this is true even though the same may contain certain other 'constituents which, either separately or in 'conjunction with 'alcohol, possess useful medicinal properties.

Submitted January 6, Decided November 21, 1897. Indictment for selling liquor. Before Judge Sweat. Appling…