WHIPPLE v. MARTINSON

No. 224.

256 U.S. 41 (1921)

STATE OF MINNESOTA ON THE RELATION OF WHIPPLE v. MARTINSON, SHERIFF OF HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1921.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas E. Latimer for plaintiff in error:


MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

The relator was convicted of a violation of a statute of the State of Minnesota providing against the evils resulting from traffic in certain habit-forming narcotic drugs, and regulating the administration, sale, and possession thereof. Laws of Minn. 1915, c. 260.

The Minnesota statute in § 1 forbids the sale of morphine and certain other narcotic drugs, with...

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