Bramlett v. Burgin

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

Disciplinary procedures pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated § 73-3-301, et seq. (1978 Supp.) applicable to an attorney convicted of a felony form the background of this cause. Conspiracy to defraud the United States is the offense for which Wm. G. Burgin, Jr. (petitioner herein) was convicted in the United States District Court, Southern District of Mississippi [Cause No. 78-00021(N)]. It was the conviction which set in motion a chain of events chronicled herein leading to the issue now before us.

Subsequent to the conviction and at the instance of the petitioner,…