Ex Parte Gerino
California Supreme Court
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS to the Chief of Police of the City and County of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
The petitioner is in custody on the charge of practicing medicine without a certificate from the state board of medical examiners, established by the act of February 20, 1901, for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery. (Stats. 1901, 56.) By his petition in habeas corpus he asks to be released on the ground that the statute is unconstitutional. The act establishes a state board of medical examiners, which is empowered to issue to persons who pass, or have passed, a satisfactory examination a certificate which shall authorize such persons to practice medicine and surgery in…
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