MacHado

The appellant, an alleged chiropractor, appeals from a judgment convicting him of having violated the State Medical Practice Act, -and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

He was charged with having on or about February 19, 1929, wilfully and unlawfully practiced, advertised and held himself out as practicing, a system and mode of treating the sick and afflicted, and with having unlawfully diagnosed, treated, operated for and prescribed for the diseases, injuries, deformities and other mental and physical conditions of human beings, without then ’and there having a valid, unrevoked certificate of license from the board of medical examiners so to do.

It appeared that during the month of January, 1929, the defendant examined a three year old child which was brought to his office, diagnosed its disease as pneumonia and upon five or six consecutive days thereafter visited its home, where he prescribed and caused to be administered rhubarb and soda, a pharmaceutical preparation, and some pills. There was evidence also tending to show that he prescribed tincture of digitalis for a man on or about February 16, 1929, and other preparations for a woman and a boy about three…