Kennedy's Disbarment

Citations

• 178 Pa. 232
• 35 A. 995
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1158

Syllabus

<p>Attorneys at law — Disbarment—Insanity.</p> <p>On a rule to disbar an attorney at law who has been guilty of embezzlement, the defense of insanity will not be considered as established where the only testimony on the subject is that of the respondent’s physician, whose testimony is weakened by the positive evidence of other reputable witnesses that lie had employed the respondent to attend to legal business about the time of the embezzlement, and that he had said subsequently, when interrogated particularly with reference to the respondent’s jieeuliarities and mental condition, that he was of sound mind.</p> <p>The disbarment of an attorney at law for embezzlement will not be revoked because the respondent was acquitted in the criminal court of the charge of embezzlement, on the ground of insanity, and was committed to an insane asylum and subsequently discharged as cured.</p>