Thompson v. State

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

Section 5191 of the Code of 1923 says: “Any person who treats, or offers to treat diseases of human beings in this state iby any system of treatment, whatsoever, without having obtained a certificate of qualification from the state board of medical examiners, shall be guilty” etc. The treatment, as set out in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, was “massages” by the defendant of two persons, one of whom had a pain in her shoulder and the other a pain in the neck, and, .this being so, the state failed to show that the defendant treated them for a disease.

'We find no…