82 Ill. App. 2d 236 - People v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “"The requirements of a chemical analysis in the case of an unidentified substance of unspecified origin without evidence of its nature and content is patent. The record in this case, however, discloses without contradiction, the following: (1) the defendant made the purchases using the trade name of the medicinal preparations; (2) that reputable pharmaceutical companies manufactured and distributed the preparation; (8) that the preparations were sold in the original container distributed by the manufacturer; (4) that the respective preparations have accepted standards or formulas specifying narcotics coming within the statutory concentration; (5) that the statute, Chap. 38, § 22-21 (Il. Rev.Stat.1965) requires the manufacturer to label each package or container showing the kind, quantity and form of narcotic drug contained in the medicinal preparation; (6) that the containers obtained by the defendant were, in fact, labeled by the manufacturers pursuant to such statutory requirement.... * # * * # * A court must consider the purpose of the statute with regard to the medicinal preparations at issue, and the fact that they are the subject of immediate consumption. To announce the evidential requirement of chemical analysis of each preparation sold as an exempt medicinal preparation would not only render the legislative determinations for naught, but, would compound fatuity with the ridiculous. We believe that the cireum-stantial evidence is sufficient to satisfy the trier of fac”

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