State v. Jordan
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Butler Circuit Court. — Hon. J. L. Fori, Judge. (1) The court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial. The defendant, the wife of John E. Jordan and a clerk in his drugstore, was entitled to the same protection of the law as Jordan, and could make the same defense as he could have made. State v. MeNeary, 14 Mo. App. 410. (2) Had Jno.
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Appeal from Butler Circuit Court. — Hon. J. L. Fori, Judge. (1) The court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial. The defendant, the wife of John E. Jordan and a clerk in his drugstore, was entitled to the same protection of the law as Jordan, and could make the same defense as he could have made. State v. MeNeary, 14 Mo. App. 410. (2) Had Jno. E. Jordan been prosecuted under the indictment herein, he could have made the defense that he was a druggist and being so was not guilty as charged in the indictment. A person who sells intoxicating liquors as a druggist must be…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, J.
Appeal from a conviction for selling whiskey without license as a dramshop-keeper. The defendant was the wife of the owner of a drugstore. The purchaser of the whiskey does not claim that he was provided with a prescription when he bought it from the defendant in the absence of her husband, and also in the absence of the pharmacist who it is alleged was employed to compound prescriptions. It is true the State offered to show that this pharmacist (who is also a *468regularly licensed physician), had signed a prescription for double the amount of whiskey sold by the defendant, but it did not offer…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. GibsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1895
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- State v. HammackMissouri Court of Appeals · 1902