Sanford v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense denounced by section 5191 of the Code of Alabama of 1923, practicing medicine without license.

On his trial, under an indictment which was unchallenged by demurrer, he elected to introduce no testimony in his own behalf, but to rest his ease on the testimony offered on behalf of the state. This testimony tended to show that he was engaged in the. business of treating diseases of human beings in this state. This is as far as any burden rested upon the state, and, in the absence of any testimony on appellant’s behalf, tending to show that he had been duly…