In Re Lord

The petitioner was found guilty by a verdict of a jury in the justice’s court of Modesto Township, in the county of Stanislaus, upon a complaint charging that he was on or about the thirtieth day of December, 1925, a “licensed and practicing physician and authorized to prescribe certain narcotic drugs, including morphine, and did then and there wilfully, wrongfully, and unlawfully prescribe and deliver to Mrs. Nellie Nash under said prescription, more than four grains of morphine, to-wit: approximately five grains of morphine, for one daily treatment of said Mrs. Nellie Nash, said Mrs. Nellie…