Commonwealth v. Dragon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two complaints, received and sworn to in the District Court of Eastern Hampshire on May 6, 1920, respectively charging that the defendant, not being duly authorized and registered to practise medicine within the Commonwealth, did practise medicine and did hold himself out as a practitioner of medicine. On appeal to the Superior Court, the complaints were tried together before Keating, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Two complaints, received and sworn to in the District Court of Eastern Hampshire on May 6, 1920, respectively charging that the defendant, not being duly authorized and registered to practise medicine within the Commonwealth, did practise medicine and did hold himself out as a practitioner of medicine. On appeal to the Superior Court, the complaints were tried together before Keating, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant asked that verdicts of not guilty be ordered. The request was refused, and the defendant was found guilty on both…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
The defendant on separate complaints was found guilty of holding himself out as a practitioner of medicine, and of practising medicine without being lawfully authorized so to do. R. L. c. 76, § 8. St. 1917, c. 55, § 2. G. L. c. 112, § 6. The only questions raised by the exceptions are whether there was evidence justifying the jury in finding that he did so hold himself out and did practise medicine in Ware, that town being within the jurisdiction of the District Court of Eastern Hampshire in which the proceedings were instituted. It was admitted that the defendant was not a physician and that…
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