Legal Opinion

State v. Harkness

Washington Supreme Court

Decided September 7, 1938No. 27150. Department OnePublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGeraghty, J.

— Rex Harkness, Lyle Harkness, and P. L. Sanders were charged, in a single information, with the violation of § 3 of chapter 47, Laws of 1923, p. 134 (Rem. Rev. Stat., §2509-3 [P. C. §4071-3]).

In each of three counts, identical in language except as to dates, it is charged that the defendant Rex Harkness, intending to commit a crime,

“. . . did, unlawfully and feloniously present to a druggist ... a physician’s prescription signed by one P. L. Sanders, a physician, for one half grain sulphate morphine and issued in the name of one O. H. Anderson, with intent by means thereof to procure from…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Frohwerk v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
  2. McElroy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  3. State v. BrunnWashington Supreme Court · 1927
  4. United States v. McConnellDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1923
  5. State v. ScollardWashington Supreme Court · 1923

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. State v. HarknessWashington Supreme Court · 1939
  2. Draper v. RhayDistrict Court, E.D. Washington · 1964
  3. People v. KurlandCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1973
  4. State v. MartinezWashington Supreme Court · 2024
  5. State v. MartinezWashington Supreme Court · 2024

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