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42 Mich. 71

In re McCarthy

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided October 29, 1879

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1879-10-29

Proceedings to disbar- an attorney, brought by a committee appointed by the Bar Association of Grand Bap-ids. The respondent was charged with having been convicted on an information for obtaining money under false pretenses, to which information he pleaded guilty. It satisfactorily appeared to the court by the record of conviction to be true, and he was accordingly disbarred.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently August 1947

2 state decisions

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Decided 1879-10-29

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¶1Upon the hearing, some members of the Bar Association of Grand Bapids appeared in support of the prosecution, and some controversy arose between the respondent and those gentlemen .coneernirig their procedure and certain difficulties which had arisen in that city which he claimed were open to complaint on his part.

¶2The Court, however, intimated that the proceeding was one whie'h had nothing- to do with that Association and was not under its management, and must be treated as purely in the interests of public justice, and declined to allow any controversy except as to the merits.

¶3The charges being supported by record evidence of conviction of felony on a plea of guilty, the identity of the prisoner with respondent was established by the respondent himself, who averred that .the plea was induced by undue urgency of the prosecuting attorney.

¶4He also claimed it did not appear he was admitted *72to the bar before the conviction. The contrary, however, appeared by the records of this Court.

¶5After hearing respondent, the Court held that a conviction of a felony, which was infamous, made respondent unfit for membership of the bar; and disregarding some minor charges which had been included in the charges, —the main charge being made out, — the name of respondent was for this stricken from the roll.

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