Matter of Application of Victor

Petitioner seeks discharge from the custody of the sheriff of Kern County, by whom he is held in virtue of a warrant issued upon an information filed by the district attorney charging him with practicing dentistry contrary to the provisions of the law enacted for the regulation of such practice.

The act upon which the information is founded is entitled “An act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the state of California, providing penalties for the violation hereof, and to repeal an act now in force relating to the same and known as, ‘An act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the state of California, approved March 12, 1885, approved March 23, 1901.’ ” As then adopted, section 1 of this act provided: “It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of dentistry in the state of California, unless said person shall have obtained a license from a board of dental examiners, duly authorized and appointed under the provisions of this act to issue licenses; provided, that this act shall not affect the right under the laws of…