Norman Fields v. District of Columbia

This is a petition for allowance of an appeal from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The District of Columbia Court of General Sessions found that petitioner, an optician, had practiced optometry without a license1 by his unsupervised fitting of contact lenses. Since this was obviously prosecuted as a test case, no sentence was imposed on petitioner; imposition of sentence was suspended upon his giving of personal bond not to repeat the offense. On ap*1325peal, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed, construing the District optometry statute to make any fitting of contact…