People v. T. Wah Hing

The defendant was convicted of the violation of section 17 of the Medical Practice Act. (Stats. 1913, p. 722.) This appeal is from the judgment and the order denying a new trial.

The indictment, filed September 16, 1925, charges that the defendant, on the - day of July, 1925, “did then and there wilfully and unlawfully practice, attempt to practice, and hold himself out as practicing a system or mode of treating the sick and afflicted in this state, without having at the time of so doing a valid, unrevoked certificate from the board of medical examiners of the state of California.”

Appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction. A witness for the prosecution testified that a neighbor, Mrs. McBride, was ill during the month of July, 1925, for a period of about three weeks, and that she died the first or second of the following month; that the defendant visited the McBride residence during the period “at least three or four times,” remaining there “around ten minutes” each time; that his visits were made “a couple of times in the evening, along about seven or seven thirty, and at other times, during the day.” A second witness testified that she saw…