HIXON v. OAKES

No. 420.

265 U.S. 254 (1924)

HIXON v. OAKES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ray E. Nimmo for plaintiff in error.

Mr. J.M. Friedlander and Mr. S.W. Odell for defendant in error.

Mr. E.C. Brokmeyer, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff in error, a regularly licensed pharmacist, was convicted of violating, September 8, 1921, an ordinance of Los Angeles construed to forbid the filling of a prescription which called for more than eight ounces of alcoholic liquor.

After sentence, under permitted practice, he challenged the validity of the ordinance by a habeas corpus proceeding commenced in the District Court of Appeal...

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