Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_10/html/0821-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PHYSICIANS — CERTIFICATES.
    [Hamilton Circuit Court,
    1899.]
    Hale, Marvin, and Caldwell, JJ.
    (Of the Eighth Circuit, sitting in First Circuit.)'
    Plaut v. State of Ohio.
    Physician Without Certificate — Emergency No Defense.
    The fact that the case in which defendant prescribed was an emergency is no defense to a prosecution for practicing medicine without a certificate
    Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county.
   Per Curiam.

It was contended at the trial below that under the showing that it was an emergency wherein the defendant had prescribed, the jury should be directed to return a verdict of not guilty. The trial judge refused to do, and the circuit sustains this action.