Case Name: In Re SLAGLE
Court: Montana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Montana
Decision Date: 1921-12-21
Citations: 62 Mont. 49
Docket Number: No. 4,967
Parties: In Re SLAGLE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Montana Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 49–50

Head Matter:
In Re SLAGLE.
(No. 4,967.)
(Submitted December 12, 1921.
Decided December 21, 1921.)
[202 Pac. 1117.]
Attorneys—Disbarment—Unprofessional Conduct—Retention of Funds of Client—Reparation—Suspension Deemed Sufficient Punishment.
1. Where an attorney, charged with failure to pay over promptly funds to his client collected by him, confessed his delinquency, had made reparation and made explanation of his conduct, suspension from his office as attorney and counselor at law deemed sufficient punishment.
Proceeding by the Attorney General for the disbarment of . Clyde Slagle.
Wellington D. Rayddn, Attorney General, representing the State.
Clyde Slagle, pro se.

Opinion:
Opinion:
PER CURIAM.'
Original proceeding on the complaint of the Attorney Gen eral against Clyde Slagle, an attorney and counselor at law of the courts of Montana, to procure his disbarment. In his answer the accused admitted the facts constituting the charge substantially as alleged in the complaint. Final hearing was then had before the court; service by a referee to take testimony being deemed unnecessary. The facts thus disclosed, supplemented by an explanatory statement by the accused himself, present a case in its substantial particulars the same as that presented in.the ease of In re Jewell, 60 Mont. 602, 201 Pac. 266. The court has concluded that the course pursued in that case may properly be pursued in the instant one. It is accordingly ordered that Clyde Slagle be suspended from his office as attorney and counselor at law for a period of ninety days from this date, and that, at the expiration of that time, he may be restored to his office upon paying to the clerk of this court the costs incurred herein and presenting to the court satisfactory proof of his good moral character in the meantime.