Case Name: The State of Missouri, Respondent, v. James O. Bowers, Appellant
Court: Kansas City Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1896-03-23
Citations: 65 Mo. App. 639
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State of Missouri, Respondent, v. James O. Bowers, Appellant.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 639–640

Head Matter:
The State of Missouri, Respondent, v. James O. Bowers, Appellant.
Kansas City Court of Appeals,
March 23, 1896.
Druggist: selling liquor: prescription. A prescription failing to state that the liquor therein described was a necessary remedy is no defense to an indictment against a druggist for selling liquor.
Appeal from the Caldwell Circuit Court. — Hon. E. J. Broaddus, Judge.
Appirmed.
No brief for appellant.
No brief for respondent.

Opinion:
Ellison, J.
This is a prosecution under the druggist and pharmacist statute against defendant who is a druggist, for selling liquor without a prescription required by statute or other requisite authority to do so. The case shows a sale. The defense seems to have been based on a prescription from a regular registered, and practicing physician. This prescription fails to state that the liquor was prescribed as a necessary remedy, as is required by section 4621, Revised Statutes, 1889, and as such is no defense. The trial court did not err in refusing defendant's instruction declaring the prescription sufficient. The facts disclosed by the record were sufficient to sustain the finding of the court and the judgment will, therefore, be affirmed.
All concur.