City of Birmingham v. Edwards

Appellee, Edwards, was prosecuted upon a warrant returnable to the recorder’s court in the city of Birmingham. The warrant charged that the defendant “did treat, or offer to treat, the disease of a human being, without first having obtained a certificate of qualification from the State Board of Medical Examiners, contrary to and in violation of section 7564 of the Code of Alabama as amended by an act of the Legislature of Alabama approved September 22, 1915 (Acts 1915, p. 661), against the laws and ordinances of the city of Birmingham.” To this charge the defendant filed pleas as to the…