Reeves v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the county court of Carter county on a charge of practicing medicine without a license, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $500.

The information charges that defendant, without having a license, did practice medicine by injecting a preparation of arsenic as a, treatment for syphilis into the veins of a certain patient.

It is first contended that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict. The record discloses that defendant operated a sanitarium in the city of Ardmore; that the patient named went to the…