Case Name: DARSEY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1939-02-01
Citations: 124 S.W.2d 380
Docket Number: No. 20151
Parties: DARSEY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 124
Pages: 380–380

Head Matter:
DARSEY v. STATE.
No. 20151.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 1, 1939.
Ray Cowsert, of Dimmitt, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
GRAVES, Judge.
The appellant was charged with a violation of the liquor laws of this State in that as a pharmacist licensed to sell whisky for medicinal purposes under a doctor's' prescription, he had sold whisky to one Woodrow McDermitt without a prescription therefor being issued by a regularly licensed physician, and upon a trial therefor he was fined the sum of $100.
The complaint and information fail to-allege that such sale was made "for medicinal purposes." We have heretofore held in Wilson v. State, 132 Tex.Cr.R. 156, 102 S.W.2d 1057, that such an averment was essential. To the same effect is the case of Gunn v. State, 133 Tex.Cr.R. 226, 109 S.W.2d 1056; also Taylor v. State, 133 Tex.Cr.R. 299, 110 S.W.2d 582, also Smith v. State, 134 Tex.Cr.R. 293, 115 S.W.2d 668.
This matter .was called to the trial court's-attention in a motion in arrest of judgment.
The complaint and information are both defective in that they fail to allege that such whisky was sold "for medicinal purposes" without a proper prescription.
The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.