State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““We also think that the very object of the provisions of the statute in forbidding the pharmacist who is permitted to sell for medical purposes from so selling until the applicant for the liquor has subscribed with ink and sworn to an affidavit properly filled out under the statute is to prevent the sale and use of such liquor as a beverage. The pharmacist is bound to know all the provisions of the law. If the applicant honestly wants intoxicating liquor for medical use, he will not hesitate to make the necessary affidavit required by the law. But he may well hesitate about making such affidavit when he wants the liquor for use as a beverage, because the statute declares that if he makes a false affidavit he shall be guilty of perjury. It is the fear of prosecution for perjury that causes the shuffling in connection with the making of the affidavit, and which results in incomplete affidavits such as were made in this case. The whole force and effect of the law may rest upon this affidavit; for if it may be evaded, as in this case, by simply signing it with a pencil and not swearing to it, then any person, by simply saying in writing that he wants a certain quantity of liquor, and that he wants it for medical purposes, can get it; and it is well suggested in the state’s brief that if that could be done it would become very fashionable to drink for medical purposes. We think all the provisions of the statute relating to the affidavit required of the applicant before a sale of i”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gregory