In re Treadwell

Citations

• 67 Cal. 353
• 7 P. 724
• 1885 Cal. LEXIS 642

Syllabus

<p>Attorney at Law—Duties. — On a review of the evidence, held, that the respondent was guilty of a breach of bis duty as an attorney in appropriating to his own use money collected by him for his client.</p> <p>Id.—Disbarment—Criminal Offense not Necessary.—In exercising the power of disbarment, the court deals with the attorney only as an officer of the court, investigating charges against him for the purpose of determining whether, under the proofs, he is a fit person to bo allowed to continue to practice as an attorney and counsellor in the courts under the license which has been granted to him, and not for the purpose of adjudging whether ho is guilty of the commission of a crime for which he ought to be convicted and punished; and where an attorney has been found guilty in the practice of his profession of acts indicating moral depravity, he may be disbarred by the court without previous conviction of a criminal offense.</p>