Allen

The People have appealed from a judgment for the defendant which followed the sustaining of his demurrer to the information without leave to amend. Count I of the information charges that defendant violated section 580 of the Business and Professions Code in that on or about June 6, 1956, he “. . . did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously sell, barter, and offer to sell to A. Arthur Lasky a Naturopathic degree and certificate made and purporting to be made pursuant to laws regulating the licensing and registration or issuing of a certificate to Naturopathies.” In identical language Count II charges defendant with another violation of the same statute.

Section 580 provides as follows: “No person, company or association shall sell or barter or offer to sell or barter any medical degree, or osteopathic degree, or chiropractic degree, or drugless practitioner degree or naturopathic degree, or any degree, certificate or transcript made or purporting to be made pursuant to any laws regulating the licensing and registration or issuing of a certificate to physicians and surgeons, drugless practitioners, chiropodists, midwives, osteopathic physicians and surgeons or drugless…