Jameson

The defendants and appellants here, respondents in a certiorari proceeding in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, appealed from a judgment rendered therein annulling a judgment of said board which suspended the license of the petitioner to practice dentistry in this state.

Concisely stated, the respondent was charged before said board with unprofessional conduct, in that on various dates he knowingly and wilfully permitted certain named unlicensed persons to have the use of his dental office and to use certain dental instruments and paraphernalia therein contained, for the purpose of practicing dentistry therein, and that he aided and abetted said unlicensed persons in so practicing, contrary to the provisions of the dental law of this state. A citation was issued and served pursuant to the statutory requirement that a verified accusation had been presented to the board for its consideration, which the board deemed sufficient; respondent entered a plea of not guilty and after the introduction of evidence said board rendered its findings and judgment aforesaid.

It is contended that the act of the board in passing upon the sufficiency of the citation was purely ministerial…