Berry

This is an appeal by the petitioner from a judgment of the superior court in a proceeding in certiorari by which the action of the Board of Medical Examiners of the state of California in revoking the license of the petitioner to practice medicine was affirmed. The appeal is presented upon a. bill of exceptions which contains the papers constituting the record of the proceeding before said board,_ including a transcript of the testimony taken therein, and which, in obedience to the writ of certiorari issued by the trial court, were produced in that court.

The record shows that a complaint was filed before the Board of Medical Examiners by one Frank M. Smith, special agent of said board, charging the petitioner, John Lafayette Berry, with having been guilty of unprofessional conduct under the eighth subdivision of section 14 of the Medical Practice Act (Stats. 1913, p. 722), in that the said Berry, being the holder of a certificate issued by said board licensing him to practice medicine and surgery, did “use in connection with his practice of medicine and surgery a name other than his own in a certain sign and advertisement and announcement of his practice in the words and figures…