State v. Kennett

’Defendant was convicted of a violation of the Local Option Law and has appealed. The first error assigned is that the court erred in refusing to admit in evidence a prescription offered by defendant. In offering the prescription it was shown that the doctor who issued it had been practicing medicine for thirty years, but it was not shown that he was a registered physician. The only prescription which the statute recognized is one that is issued by a “regularly registered and practicing physician.” [Statute 1909, section 5781.] Hence, before a prescription is admis*639sible proof must be offered…