Playboy After Hours

July, 1982

Dope? Nope!Spelling counts--just ask Arley Thomas, Jr., of Dallas. When Thomas was booked for possession of cocaine, his attorney noticed that the indictment referred to a derivative of cocoa, as in Nestlé's, rather than to coca, as in nostrils."Our law places a burden on the state to dot all the I's and cross all the T's," the lawyer argued in Thomas' defense. "To do otherwise could deprive a person of his freedom."It must have been a delivery worthy of Clarence Darrow, beca...