Wilkins v. State

The indictment upon which is founded the j udgment from which this appeal is prosecuted, charges that the appellant did practice the profession of dentistry without having obtained a certificate from the board of examiners established under the act of March 7th, 1887, Acts of 1887, p. 58..

There is entire harmony in the adjudged cases upon the question of the power of the Legislature to enact laws prescribing what qualifications a person shall possess who enters upon the practice of a profession requiring professional skill and learning. From the earliest years of the common law, men who…