Miller v. State

In this opinion plaintiff in error, Joseph Cary Miller will be referred to as Defendant, and defendant in error the State of Tennessee as the State.

In December 1957 Defendant was arrested by a member of the Bristol Police Department and he confessed to taking certain medicine from the plant of S. E. Massengill *324Company where lie was employed. The medicine was Semoxydrine Hydrochloride (7.5 mg.) packag*ed in bottles of 1000 tablets commonly referred to as “Bennies.’’ This medicine was obtainable by the public only on a doctor’s prescription.

Defendant in his confession stated shortly after he…