Hixon v. Oakes

Plaintiff in error, a regularly licensed pharmacist, was convicted of violating, September 8, 1921, an ordinance of Los Angeles construed to forbid the filling of a prescription which called for more than eight ounces of alcoholic liquor.

After sentence, under permitted practice, he challenged the validity of the ordinance by a habeas corpus proceeding commenced in the District Court of Appeal upon the ground that it “ is unconstitutional and void because it is in violation of the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of the terms of the…