Commonwealth v. St. Pierre
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, under St. 1894, c. 458, § 10, entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of physicians and surgeons,” as amended by St. 1895, c. 412, to the Second District Court of Bristol, alleging that the defendant, on January 1, 1898, “ and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making this complaint,” at Fall River, “ did hold himself out to the public as a physician and surgeon, without being then and on the said other days and times duly…
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Complaint, under St. 1894, c. 458, § 10, entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of physicians and surgeons,” as amended by St. 1895, c. 412, to the Second District Court of Bristol, alleging that the defendant, on January 1, 1898, “ and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making this complaint,” at Fall River, “ did hold himself out to the public as a physician and surgeon, without being then and on the said other days and times duly registered as a physician by the Board of Registration in Medicine . . . according to law.” At the trial in the Superior…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
1. The exception to the exclusion of the testimony offered by the defendant on cross-examination must be sustained. The government had introduced in evidence testimony of a number of persons to the effect that they had visited the defendant at various times; that he gave to them medicines, and advised them how to use them; that at these times they had conversations with him about the nature of their complaints ; that he afterwards visited some of them at their houses *50and treated them there, and that they paid him money; and the bottles and packages, which the witnesses testified were given to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. McCartyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
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