The People v. McGinley

The State's attorney of Rock Island county filed an information on March 18, 1926, in the county court of that county, charging John J. McGinley (hereafter referred to as plaintiff in error) with having violated the Medical Practice act. The information consisted of three counts. The first count charged that plaintiff in error treated human ailments without the use of drugs or medicine or operative surgery without having a valid license to treat human ailments. The second count charged that he treated human ailments by a system or method of treatment known as chiropractic without having a…