Collins v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of certain provisions of the statute of Texas establishing the Board of Medical Examiners, are stated in the opinion. The statute deprives plaintiff in error of his property without due process of law, and denies him the equal protection of the law.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. The facts, which involve the constitutionality of certain provisions of the statute of Texas establishing the Board of Medical Examiners, are stated in the opinion. The statute deprives plaintiff in error of his property without due process of law, and denies him the equal protection of the law. The last two clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment are restrictions upon the exercise of arbitrary and capricious power over persons and property when exercised by the State through any of its agencies. Ex parte Virginia, 100 U. S. 339; Yick…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a writ of error to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upon a judgment denying the plaintiff in error a release by habeas corpus. The plaintiff in error is held upon an information charging him with practising medicine for money by treating a named patient for hay fever by osteopathy, without having registered his authority as required by a Texas statute of April 17, 1907, c. 123 (Gen. Laws, 1907, p. 224). He denies the constitutionality' of the act.
The statute establishes a Board of Medical Examiners and requires “all legal practitioners of medicine in this State, who, practising…
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