DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, against an Apothecary, for having sold a Poisonous Drug to a nègre who poisoned himself with it

SEEN by the Court the proceedings made by extraordinary procedure and conducted by the Juge Criminel of the Cap, at the Petition of the Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi at the said Siège, against the man named Jean Thénevot, Apothecary of this Town, defendant and accused, decreed to personal summons; the said Substitut appealing from a Sentence of the said Siège of 14 March last, which had declared the said Jean Thénevot duly attained and convicted of having, contrary to the provision of the Ordinance of the Général and Intendant, dated 3 November 1780, registered on the 4th of the same month, kept in his Shop prohibited Drugs, the sale of which is reserved by the said Ordinance to the King’s Apothecary; in reparation of which, etc. Heard and questioned the said Jean Thénevot behind the Bar, on his ground of appeal and the charges imposed on him; written Conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi: Heard the report of M.