Branch v. State, (1930)
Court: Supreme Court of Florida
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Visitors: 9
Judges: PER CURIAM. —
Attorneys: Zewadski Pierce, for Plaintiff in Error;
Fred H. Davis, Attorney General, and Roy Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, for Defendant in Error.
Filed: Mar. 05, 1930
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: The writ of error herein was taken to a judgment of disbarment under statutory proceedings. One circuit judge heard a complaint against an attorney at law and after taking testimony as to the nature and circumstances of the offense charged against the attorney, the judge directed the state attorney "to make a motion in writing to disbar" the attorney. Subsequently the state attorney filed and brought on for hearing before another judge of the same circuit an amended motion to disbar the attorney
Summary: The writ of error herein was taken to a judgment of disbarment under statutory proceedings. One circuit judge heard a complaint against an attorney at law and after taking testimony as to the nature and circumstances of the offense charged against the attorney, the judge directed the state attorney "to make a motion in writing to disbar" the attorney. Subsequently the state attorney filed and brought on for hearing before another judge of the same circuit an amended motion to disbar the attorney,..
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I am of the opinion that if the purported judgment had been sufficient to show an adjudication of the respondent's guilt of the crime of assault with intent to murder, this alone would have been sufficient to sustain the judgment of disbarment.
STRUM, J., concurs. TERRELL, C. J., concurs.
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