People v. Herbert

Defendant was accused of a violation of the State Poison Act (Stats. 1907, p. 124), was tried by a jury and found guilty, and this is an appeal from the judgment of conviction and the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The information charged the defendant with willfully and feloniously having in his possession a preparation of morphine contrary to the provisions of section 8 of the act above referred to, and also with having been convicted of a prior offense under the same act.

It was proved at the trial that an inspector for the state board of pharmacy, whose duty it is to…