Commonwealth v. Danton

The defendant was found guilty of the larceny of fifty rugs, the property of Henry O. Marcy. At the trial the Commonwealth, against the defendant’s exception, offered in evidence a small bottle and a label taken from it, upon which was written, “November 2, 1919, 12 tabs. F. L. P. One after each meal dissolved in water, Dr. Danton.” The label was in the handwriting of the defendant. He testified that he was not registered to practise medicine in this Commonwealth, that he did not “write a prescription, that this was medicine which he gave to a friend.” He was further cross-examined by the Com*553m…