No. 24813. | Miss. | Oct 5, 1925
In Young v. State, and Davison v. Town of Newton (Miss.), 102 So. 161, 36 A.L.R. 717, we held that the statute prohibiting the possession of intoxicating liquors did not apply to articles used as medicines, etc., which might be lawfully possessed for certain purposes, and that the possession of Jamaica ginger, put up in accordance with the United States Pharmacopoeia, recognized as having a *182 proper medicinal value and use, would not sustain a conviction under the statute. See, also Reeves Grocery Co. v. State (Miss.), 103 So. 425, following the above decision. These cases are squarely in point in the case before us, and the judgment and conviction will be reversed, and appellant discharged.
Reversed, and appellant discharged.