Case Name: STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS v. CARL A. THOEN
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1913-12-12
Citations: 124 Minn. 529
Docket Number: No. 18,561
Parties: STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS v. CARL A. THOEN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 124
Pages: 529–530

Head Matter:
STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS v. CARL A. THOEN.
December 12, 1913.
No. 18,561.
Attorney disbarred because convicted of crime.
Attorney disbarred because of his conviction of the crime of forgery. [Reporter.]
The State Board of Law Examiners, through its secretary, petitioned for the disbarment of the respondent because of his conviction of the crime of forgery in the second degree upon his plea of guilty.
Mi Southworth, for petitioner.
Reported in 144 N. W. 1135.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Respondent Carl A. Thoen, a duly licensed and practicing attorney of this state, was on the eleventh day of October, 1913, duly convicted in the district court of Hennepin county of the crime of forgery and sentenced to imprisonment in the state reformatory for a term of years. Thereupon the Board of Law Examiners caused this proceeding to be instituted for his disbarment. After consideration of the record we find the allegations of the petition true. It is there fore ordered that respondent Carl A. Thoen be. and he is removed from his office as an attorney and counsellor in the courts of this state, and that the license heretofore issued to him be and the same is hereby annulled.