Whitman v. State

The appellant was indicted bythe grand jury of Dorchester County for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor to one Stack. The traverser demurred to the indictment, but the demurrer was overruled, and he then pleaded, first, that he did sell the liquor as charged, but that at the time of so doing he was a regular pharmacist or druggist, having a license to carry on the business of pharmacist or druggist; that the sale referred to in the indictment was made upon the written bona fide prescription of a regular practising physician, and that he did not sell but once upon the same prescription. He…