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Brack v. State

Court of Appeals of Alabama
Jun 5, 1923
96 So. 727 (Ala. Crim. App. 1923)

Opinion

8 Div. 64.

June 5, 1923.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Madison County; Robert C. Brickell, Judge.

Erwin Brack was convicted of practicing medicine without license, and appeals. Affirmed.

The following is the amended complaint:

"The State of Alabama, Madison County. In the Circuit Court. Before me, Carter H. rice, clerk circuit court, this day personally appeared Carl A. Grote and made oath that he has probable cause for believing and does believe that before the finding of this complaint Erwin Brack did treat, or offer to treat disease of a human being without having obtained a certificate of qualification from the state board of medical examiners, contrary to law, which said offense has been committed against the peace and dignity of the state of Alabama."

Betts Richardson, of Huntsville, for appellant.

No brief reached the Reporter.

Harwell G. Davis, Atty. Gen., and Lamar Field, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

The complaint follows the statute, and this is sufficient. Masters v. State, 18 Ala. App. 614, 94 So. 249. Inferentially, it was not necessary that the complaint show the name of the third person, the case not involving injury to a person or property. Morningstar v. State, 52 Ala. 405.


The defendant was tried and convicted upon a complaint which charged him with a violation of section 7564 of the Code as amended by the Acts of the Legislature 1915, p. 661.

The court sustained demurrers to the original complaint, whereupon the solicitor filed an amended complaint upon which the trial proceeded. This amended complaint is set out in the record.

The judgment entry recites, among other things:

"Whereupon the state of Alabama by its solicitor amends its complaint, whereupon defendant refiled demurrers to the complaint as amended and the same being submitted to and considered by the court, it is ordered that said demurrers be and the same are hereby overruled."

No demurrers to the amended complaint are contained in the record. We are therefore unable to consider same and must presume that the court did not err in its rulings in this connection. The amended complaint, moreover, appears to be sufficient, as it follows the language of the statute.

The appeal being upon the record proper, which is without error, the judgment appealed from must stand affirmed.

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Brack v. State

Court of Appeals of Alabama
Jun 5, 1923
96 So. 727 (Ala. Crim. App. 1923)
Case details for

Brack v. State

Case Details

Full title:BRACK v. STATE

Court:Court of Appeals of Alabama

Date published: Jun 5, 1923

Citations

96 So. 727 (Ala. Crim. App. 1923)
19 Ala. App. 258