Jordan

This is an appeal from a judgment refusing on certiorari to annul an order of the state board of medical examiners revoking petitioner’s license to practice medicine in the state of California.

The proceedings before the board were taken under the provisions of the Medical Practice Act Stats. 1913, p. 722, c. 354; Stats. 1915, p. 184, c. 105, and also amended in 1917 [p. 93, c. 81] and 1919 [p. 1299, c. 632].) The complaint charged the petitioner with unprofessional conduct under subdivision 1 of section 14 of the act, by procuring a criminal abortion upon a pregnant woman.

Appellant contends that the record of the proceedings had and taken before the board shows such an absence of proper evidence a® to amount to lack of jurisdiction in the board to make the order under review. It will serve no useful purpose to again state the powers of the court upon certiorari, particularly with reference to the action of the board of medical examiners in revoking a physician’s license for unprofessional conduct in procuring an abortion. This subject has been fully discussed in several recent decisions: Thrasher v. Board of Medical Examiners, 44 Cal. App. 26 , [ 185 Pac. 1006 ]; Lanterman v.…