State v. Bowers

This is a prosecution under the druggist and pharmacist statute against defendant who is a druggist, for selling liquor without a prescription required by statute or other requisite authority to do so. The case shows a sale. The defense seems to have been based on a prescription from a regular registered, and practicing physician. This prescription fails to state that the liquor was prescribed as a necessary remedy, as is required by section 4621, Revised Statutes, 1889, and as such is no ■ defense. The trial court did not err in refusing defendant’s instruction declaring the prescription…