Commonwealth v. Runge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two complaints under R. L. c. 76, § 8, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on February 18 and August 3, 1915, the first charging the defendant with practising medicine on November 18,1914, and on divers other days between that date and February 18, 1915, not being authorized to do so and not being registered with the board of registration in medicine of the Commonwealth according to law, and the second charging the defendant with holding…
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Two complaints under R. L. c. 76, § 8, received and sworn to in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston on February 18 and August 3, 1915, the first charging the defendant with practising medicine on November 18,1914, and on divers other days between that date and February 18, 1915, not being authorized to do so and not being registered with the board of registration in medicine of the Commonwealth according to law, and the second charging the defendant with holding himself out as a practitioner of medicine between March 3, 1915, and August 3, 1915, without being lawfully authorized to…
1Opinion of the CourtLosing, J.
In this case there were two complaints. The second complaint charged the defendant with having unlawfully held himself out “as a practitioner of medicine” (in violation of R. L. c. 76, § 8), between March 3, 1915, and August 3, 1915. At the trial the government did not put in evidence any such act between the dates named. But it did introduce evidence of *600one such act on February 21, 1914, and of another on February 12, 1915. The presiding judge instructed the jury that, if the defendant held himself out as a practitioner of .medicine upon, any occasion preceding the date alleged in the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. RobinsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
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- Commonwealth v. FullerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
- Commonwealth v. PurdyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
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