People v. Terry

The defendant Howard Lincoln Terry, also known as Dr. H. L. Terry, was charged with feloniously making and uttering a false and forged prescription for Isonipecaine (Demerol), and with making false statements in the prescription. At the close of the People’s case, the judge granted the defendant’s motion for acquittal. This appeal by the People is (1) from the court’s ruling that a certain prescription and certain testimony concerning the same were inadmissible in evidence because they were the “fruit of the poisonous tree” (the poisonous tree being an admittedly invalid search warrant); and…