Baldwin v. United States

WESTENHAVER, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error, a registered physician, was charged by indictment with haying sold and dispensed morphine sulphate, not in the bona fide course of professional treatment of a patient, in violation of section 2, Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act (Comp. St; § 6287h). The indictment contained two counts charging two separate transactions. He was found guilty, and sentenced to two .years’ imprisonment and fined $200 upon each count; both fine and imprisonment thus imposed being concurrent.

No exception was taken to the charge. The assignment of error that the evidence was…