38 S.W. 772 | Tex. Crim. App. | 1897
Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law in Precinct No. 3, of Grayson County, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $25 and twenty days' imprisonment in the county jail. Local option was in force in said precinct at the time of this transaction. Upon the trial, appellant introduced in evidence a prescription from one Dr. Hayes, and relied upon this prescription as authority for selling the whiskey to the prosecutor, Mitchell. The prosecutor swore that he never applied to Dr. Hayes for a prescription; that he was never examined, and knew nothing of the prescription. The circumstances show with reasonable certainty that appellant procured from the doctor the prescription in order to defeat a prosecution. The doctor seems to have been in an adjoining room, ready for such contingencies. He was applied to by appellant for the prescription and gave it. This was a palpable fraud, and furnished no protection to the appellant for selling the whiskey. The charge submitted to the jury was *36 as favorable as appellant was entitled to receive. We think this conviction is right, and suggest a prosecution against Dr. Hayes, under Art. 405, Penal Code. The indictment is good, and the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
[NOTE. — Appellant filed a motion for rehearing which was overruled without a written opinion. — Reporter.]