Court Opinion

ID: 9808474
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:39:00.269243+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:13:11.870762
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Clark, C. J.,
dissents upon the ground that the commission of a felony anywhere makes the party an unfit member of an honorable profession, and is a ground for disbarment under .our statute (Revisal, sec. 211). If it be conceded that the “conviction” thereof in another jurisdiction is not such proof of the fact as our statute contemplates, yet when the judge gave the respondent leave to file an answer denying the commission of the offense he did not do so. The charge, based on a certified judgment upon conviction in the United States Circuit Court, not being denied, must be taken as admitted in open court (Re-visal, sec. 211), for this is a civil proceeding. Our courts could not “convict” the respondent for a felony committed elsewhere, with a view to punishment for crime, but in a civil proceeding for disbarment it could inquire as to the fact whether he committed the act alleged. Offered the opportunity in open court, he did not answer the charge, and, there being no issue raised, the court properly gave judgment.