Cochran

The appellant was convicted of “practicing mode of treating sick without having valid unrevoked certificate of license from State Board of Medical Examiners.” From the judgment pronounced and an order denying motion for new trial this appeal was taken.

[1] The charging part of the information reads as follows: “That the said A. D. Cochran on or about the 16 day of December, 1920, at, and in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously practice, attempt to practice and advertise and hold himself out as practicing a system and mode of treating the sick and afflicted in the State of California, without then and there having a valid unrevoked certificate authorizing him to practice a system or mode of treating the sick and afflicted in the State of California, from the State Board of Medical Examiners of the State of California.”

The principal contention of the defendant and appellant is that the information does not state facts sufficient to constitute a public offense. Our attention is called to the fact that in addition to the Medical Practice Act (Stats. 1913, p. 722) there is a statute in force in this state regulating the practice…