Fyke v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The indictment charges appellant, under article 748 of the Penal Code, with being then and there a lawfully-authorized practitioner of medicine, and, as such, did then and there unlawfully prescribe morphine for the use of Maud Smith, who was then and there an habitual user of morphine, contrary to the statutes, etc. That article provides that it shall be unlawful for any practitioner of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine to furnish to, or prescribe for the úse of, any habitual user of the same, any cocaine or morphine, or any salts or compound of cocaine or morphine,…