A person convicted of bribery, burglary, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretenses, perjury, forgery, embezzlement, or bigamy, shall not be allowed to practice medicine or dentistry, or be appointed to hold or perform the duties of any office of profit, trust, or honor, unless after full pardon for the same.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 65, art. 2(63); 1857, ch. 64, art. 358; 1871, § 2865; 1880, § 3100; 1892, § 1455; 1906, § 1528; Hemingway's 1917, § 1290; 1930, § 1315; 1942, § 2563; Laws, 1987, ch. 499, § 18, eff. 7/24/1987 (the date on which the United States Attorney General interposed no objection).
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