ALLEGED FORGED PRESCRIPTION
Man Committed For Trial (New Zealand Pres* Assort attonl AUCKLAND, July 4. John Quinton Spencer, aged 45. a painter, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court today that knowing a document purporting to be a prescription signed by Dr. H. Morrison, of Wellsford, to be forged did cause a chemist to act upon it as genuine. After hearing submissions from Mr J. Henry, for Spencer, that there was insufficient evidence on which a jury could properly convict, Mr A. A. Coates, S.M., ruled that a prima facie case had been made. Spencer pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Hugh Morrison, a medical practitioner, said he had not made out the prescription, one item of which was for tablets which are “usually prescribed to correct an actual or suspected deficiency of the male sex hormone.”
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28630, 5 July 1958, Page 14
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