Lockhart v. State

Appellant was tried in the court below for unlawfully practicing medicine. A jury being waived, the case was tried before the court, appellant convicted and the punishment assessed at $50 fine and one day imprisonment, from which he has appealed to this court and seeks a reversal on the ground that the bill of indictment charges no offense against the law. The indictment charges that appellant on or about the 15th day of Hay, 1909, and anterior to the presentment of the indictment in the county of Cherokee and State of Texas, did unlawfully engage in the practice of medicine for pay and as a…