Ex parte Ferdon
Oregon Supreme Court
From Umatilla : Stephen A. Lowell, Judge. J. M. Ferdon was committed to the custody of William Blakley, sheriff, on the charge of itinerantly vending medicine without a license, contrary to statute, and he applied for a writ of habeas corpus. From a judgment dismissing the writ and remanding petitioner, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
On September 13, 1898, the petitioner was held to answer, by a committing magistrate, for a violation of section 11 of the act of February 28, 1889, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery (Laws, 1889, p. 144), as amended by the act of 1891 (Laws, 1891, p. 153) , and in default of bail was committed to the custody of the defendant, the Sheriff of Umatilla County. He thereupon applied to the circuit court for his discharge under a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the section of the act under which he was committed is unconstitu*172tional and void, or, if not, that it was repealed…
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