Traxler

This case, in certain of its aspects, is similar to the ease of Bold v. Board of Medical Examiners, ante, p. 29 [ 26 Pac. (2d) 707 ]. Here, as there, the Board of Medical Examiners of this state revoked the certificate which it had previously issued to a physician and surgeon authorizing him to practice his profession, and on the same ground, unprofessional conduct as defined in the first subdivision of section 14, “Practice of Medicine Act of 1913” (see Stats. 1913, p. 722, as amended; Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1931 ed., Act 4807), the complaint against appellant particularly charging that he procured, aided and abetted, and attempted, agreed and offered to perform a criminal abortion upon a pregnant woman, therein named. As in the Bold case, all members of the board who attended the hearing voted to sustain the charges and to revoke the license certificate. The superior court here, as in the Bold case, reviewing under certiorari the proceedings of the board, affirmed its action. The licentiate in each case has appealed to this court from the superior court judgment.

In the instant case the appeal is grounded upon the claim that the proceedings of respondent board are void for want…