State v. Thruston
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cooper Circuit Court. — Host. E. L. Edwaeds, Judge. The act approved March 29, 1883 (Acts 1883, page 90), under which the defendant was convicted, is amendatory of the act of March 26, 1881 (Acts 1881, page 130), and the act amended is not set forth in full as amended, in accordance with the requirement of section 34, of article 4, of the constitution.
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Appeal from Cooper Circuit Court. — Host. E. L. Edwaeds, Judge. The act approved March 29, 1883 (Acts 1883, page 90), under which the defendant was convicted, is amendatory of the act of March 26, 1881 (Acts 1881, page 130), and the act amended is not set forth in full as amended, in accordance with the requirement of section 34, of article 4, of the constitution. See State v. C Tiambers, 70 Mo. 625; Trigg r>. Boonville, 46 Mo. 288. It will be seen by an examination of the original with the amendatory act (sec. 8, Acts 1881, p. 131, and the amendatory act, Acts 1883, p. 89), that the…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, C. J.
The defendant was indicted in the Cooper county circuit court, as a druggist and pharmacist, for selling intoxicating liquors in less quantities than one gallon, without a written prescription first had and obtained from a regularly registered and practicing physician. Defendant was tried, convicted, and fined one hundred dollars, and has appealed to this court, and the sole ground relied upon, for a reversal of the judgment is the alleged unconstitutionality of the act of the legislature on which the indictment was founded.
The act of 1883 (Acts 1883, p. 90), on which the indictment was…
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