Commonwealth v. Cassady
Commonwealth v. Cassady
Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Affirming.
This prosecution in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is based upon an information filed in the Whitley circuit court against the appellee, and in which the appellee was charged with the offense of selling patent and proprietary medicines without having a license authorizing-him to. do so, he not being a druggist or merchant selling from his place of business. The statute créating the offense of which the appellee was accused in the information was Subdivision 4, of Article XII, Chapter 108, of the Kentucky Statutes, and which makes it a misdemeanor for any person to engage in the sale of patent medicine, other than a merchant or druggist selling from his place of business, or for a transient vendor, or trader of patent, secret or proprietary medicines or nostrums to engage in their sale without having procured a license and having paid the tax thereon required by that statute. The parties made an agreed statement of facts upon which the information was based, and agreed that the court might determine from the facts stated in the writing whether the appellee was guilty or innocent
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