Dent v. West Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. The court stated the case, as follows • This case comes from the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. The court stated the case, as follows • This case comes from the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. It involves the validity of the statute of that State which requires every practitioner of medicine in it to obtain a certificate from the State Board of Health that he is. a graduate of a reputable medical college in the school of medicine to which he belongs ; or that he has practised medicine in the State continuously for the period of ten years prior to the eighth day of March, 1881; or that he has been found, upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Mb. JustiCB Fíeld,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
Whether the indictment upon which the plaintiff in error was tried and found guilty is open to objection for want of sufficient certainty in its averments, is a question which does not appear- to have been raised either on the trial or before the Supreme Court of the State. The presiding justice 'of the latter court in its opinion states .that the counsel for the defendant expressly waived all objections to defects in form or substance of the indictment, and based his claim for a review of the judgment on the ground…
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