McCann v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before Hon. H. F. Dunson, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for practicing dentistry without license; penalty, a fine of $25. The charging part of the information is set out- in the opinion.
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Appeal from the County Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before Hon. H. F. Dunson, County Judge. Appeal from a conviction for practicing dentistry without license; penalty, a fine of $25. The charging part of the information is set out- in the opinion. Defendant made a motion to quash the information, “Because it does not allege that such act of practice was not then and there the extracting of teeth; because the law under which he is prosecuted has been repealed, and because the information does not allege that the defendant, at the time, was not a physician and was not a surgeon.” This…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was charged with practicing and engaging in the practice of dentistry for a fee and reward, and as such practicing dentist did practice and work at dentistry upon the person of R. L. Keely, for which said practice and dental work the said J. H. McCann received a fee and reward, without first having obtained from some board of examiners, duly appointed and authorized by law to issue license for the practice of dentistry, a license to practice dentistry. This is the charging part of the information. This prosecution is based upon article 451, Penal Code, being the Act…
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