People v. Gordon
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. John C. Garter, Judg'e, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. John C. Garter, Judg'e, presiding. This is an action of debt by the People, for the use of the State Board of Health, against Joseph P. Gordon, to recover a penalty for practicing medicine without a license, contrary to the provisions of the act of 1899, entitled “An act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of Illinois, and to repeal an act therein named.” (Hurd’s Stat. 1899, p. 1143.) The suit was originally begun before a justice of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Wilkin
In our view, the only question for decision here is, did the evidence offered upon the trial fairly tend to prove the defendant guilty, within the proper construction of the act?
It is contended by counsel for appellee that section 7 is unconstitutional because the title is not broad enough to include it, and that the act is liable to the objection that it confers special privileges upon certain classes. In answer to these contentions we only deem it necessai'y to cite the cases of Williams v. People, 121 Ill. 84, and People v. Blue Mountain Joe, 129 id. 370, in which these and other…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Williams v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
- Nelson v. State Board of HealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1900
- State v. BuswellNebraska Supreme Court · 1894
- State v. MylodSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1898
3Cited by24 opinions
- Parks v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1902
- Commonwealth v. ZimmermanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1911
- Smith v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1911
- Locke v. Ionia Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1915
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