Bartell v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
EReob to review a judgment of the municipal court for the Eastern district of Waukesha county: D. S. Tullar, J udge. Error to review a judgment rendered on a conviction of the plaintiff in error, King Bartell, of the offense of assault and battery Bartell claimed to be a magnetic healer, in the regular practice of his profession.
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EReob to review a judgment of the municipal court for the Eastern district of Waukesha county: D. S. Tullar, J udge. Error to review a judgment rendered on a conviction of the plaintiff in error, King Bartell, of the offense of assault and battery Bartell claimed to be a magnetic healer, in the regular practice of his profession. He treated a young girl, about eighteen years of age, the person upon whom the offense was committed, at her request and with the sanction of her father. The girl was ignorant of what was necessary on her part in receiving the massage treatment, which was Bar-telVs…
1Opinion of the Court
Maeshall, J,
Two doctors were allowed to testify as experts oh the part of the state regarding whether it is reasonably necessary, in giving the massage treatment to a woman, to require her to expose her person to the view of the operator and whether it is customary where the operator is a man. The witnesses testified that they, as physicians, were familiar with the massage treatment, the methods employed in giving it, and the reasonable requirements on the part of the patient in order to receive such treatment. That sufficiently demonstrated that the witnesses possessed special knowledge of…
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