Shelton v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful practice of medicine; the punishment, 15 days in jail and a fine of $500.00.

The information, omitting the formal portions reads as follows:

“H. M. Shelton, a resident of and maintaining an office in Bexar County, Texas, did then and there in the County aforesaid, unlawfully practice medicine by publicly professing to be a physician and surgeon in offering to treat John T. Richter, a human being, for a disorder and disease, mental and physical and to effect a cure thereof when and while the said H. M. Shelton had not then and there obtained a license…