Allison v. State

ON APPELLANT’S motion for rehearing.

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant urges the point that in prescribing higher qualifications for applicants under the Medical Practice Act than are required in the enactments relating to optometrists, chiropodists, etc., the Legislature violated section *32631 of art. 16 of the Constitution, which reads as follows: “The Legislature may pass laws prescribing the qualifications of practitioners of medicine in this State, and to punish persons for mal-practice, but no preference shall ever be given by law to any schools of medicine.”

In support of his contention appellant…