“Judge Boyd
Treated a Doctor Lawbreaker Like Any Other Lawbreaker—Did You Ever!” from the Farmer and Mechanic newspaper,
published in Raleigh, N.C.,, Jan. 4, 1910
The Statesville Landmark is pained to note
that Dr. S.A.W. Holmes of Rutherford County was convicted in the Federal Court
in Charlotte last week of illicit distilling, sentenced to 15 months in the
penitentiary and fined $100. Judge Boyd surely did not have before his eyes the
proper respect for the medical profession when he imposed this sentence, and it
is now up to the medical society of Greensboro to meet and adopt resolutions of
indignation, seeing that one of the profession has been treated as a common
criminal. It will be realized that when doctors in Greensboro were hauled to
court to answer for improperly issuing liquor prescriptions, the medical
society complained that the police used the same methods to secure the evidence
as was used in the case of ordinary blind tigers.
What difference, if any,
there is between a doctor who illegally—and immorally—issues liquor
prescriptions and an ordinary blind tiger, was not, however, made clear. To
some minds the preference would be given to the tiger, for few of this class
lay special claim to respectability. It may be, however, that the Rutherford
doctor, who was probably manufacturing the material with which to fill his
prescriptions, does not belong to a medical society. If he does not he will get
no sympathy from the members of the organization.
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