Wright v. State

NIX, Judge.

Silas Barton Wright, plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was charged by information in the District Court of Pottawatomie County with the crime of obtaining a narcotic drug by fraud, second offense, tried before a jury, found guilty as charged and the punishment left up to the trial judge, who sentenced defendant to 5 years in the state penitentiary. The evidence reveals by the testimony of Joe Brasel, a pharmacist at the Marquette Pharmacy in Shawnee, that on October 20, 1956, defendant entered said pharmacy and presented a prescription, signed by Ned…