Price v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. C. Backus, Judge. Plaintiff in error was found guilty in the municipal court of Milwaukee county of practicing optometry as defined in sec. 1435/ — 35, Stats., without first having obtained a license authorizing him so to do. He brings writ of error to review the judgment of conviction.
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Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. C. Backus, Judge. Plaintiff in error was found guilty in the municipal court of Milwaukee county of practicing optometry as defined in sec. 1435/ — 35, Stats., without first having obtained a license authorizing him so to do. He brings writ of error to review the judgment of conviction. The uncontradicted evidence shows that on the 17th day of January, 1917, one Mrs. Helen Bauer, who had broken her glasses, called at his office to have them fixed. He was-not there, and she left word to have him call at her house, which…
1Opinion of the CourtOwen, J.
Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called appellant, was convicted of a violation of the statute regulating the practice of optometry, which prohibits the same withouc first having secured a license therefor, as provided by the act. His principal defenses are (1) that he did not violate the act, in that the proof did not show he was practicing optometry as defined therein; and (2) that the act is unconstitutional. The act was first enacted as ch. 488, Laws 1915, and, as amended by sec. 80, ch. 14, and sec. 2, ch. 357, Laws 1917, appears in the Statutes as sec. 1435/ — 35.
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