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73 Mo. App. 463

State v. Randall

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided February 1, 1898

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1898-02-01

<p>Criminal Law: misdemeanor: sale op liquor by merchant and unregistered pharmacist. The owner and proprietor of a drug store having a merchant’s license, but not a registered pharmacist, nor having in charge a registered pharmacist authorized to fill prescriptions of physicians, is not amenable to the dramshop act, for selling intoxicating liquor on the prescription of a physician, but under section 4621 regulating the sale of liquors by druggists, or under section 6915, Revised Statutes 1889, concerning merchant’s license.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1901

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Relies on Kirkwood Gymnasium & Armory Hall Ass'n v. Van Ness · State v. Williams

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Reversed and dependant discharged · Decided 1898-02-01

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BlaNd, P. J.

¶1The defendant has appealed from a conviction and judgment against him on a charge by information of having violated the dramshop act by the unlawful sale of beer and whisky. The uncon-tradieted testimony is that at the time defendant made the sale of intoxicating liquor, he was the owner and proprietor of a drug store and had a merchant’s license, and that the sale of the liquor was on the prescription of a physician, but he failed to show that he was a registered pharmacist or that he had a registered pharmacist in charge authorized to fill the prescriptions of physicians. Being the owner and proprietor of a drug store and having a license as a merchant, he. could only have been rightfully convicted of the sale of intoxicating liquors in the prosecution of his business under section 4621 concerning druggists, or under section 6915, Revised Statutes 1889, concerning merchants’ license. State v. Gibson, 61 Mo. App. 361; State v. Williams, 69 Mo. App. 285, 286.

¶2Judgment reversed and defendant discharged.

All concur.
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