Court Opinion

ID: 5318624
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 04:21:53.410154+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:18.333123
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
The respondent was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in the State of New York in April, 1914, at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Department.
*366On July 24, 1931, the respondent was convicted in the Court of General Sessions of the County of New York of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree, which crime is a felony, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison. Section 477 of the Judiciary Law provides: “Any person being an attorney and counsellor-atlaw, who shall be convicted of a felony, shall, upon such conviction, cease to be an attorney and counsellor-at-law, or to be competent to practice law as such.”
Subdivision 3 of section 88 of the Judiciary Law provides: “ Whenever any attorney and counsellor-at-law shall be convicted of a felony, there may be presented to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court a certified or exemplified copy of the judgment of such conviction, and thereupon the name of the person so convicted shall, by order of the court, be stricken from the roll of attorneys.”
Respondent, therefore, should be disbarred.
Present — Finch, P. J., McAvoy, Martin, O’Malley and Townley, JJ.
Respondent disbarred.