State v. Bowden

HAMITER, Justice.

In the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans Mrs. E. Bowden was convicted under a bill of information charging that on the 23rd day of March, 1950, she did “practice midwifery without a certificate or permit from the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, contrary to the form of the statute of the State of Louisiana * * *She received a sentence of three months in the Parish Prison.

In another prosecution in that court, under an identical charge, Mrs. E. Reynolds was similarly convicted and sentenced.

*16The named defendants appealed to the Appellate Division No. 1…