Melville v. Wettengel

Mr. Justice Burke sitting as chief justice.

The respondent is a member of the bar of the court and district attorney of the second judicial district. March 10,1936, the petitioner, also a member of the bar, prayed that a citation issue commanding the respondent to show cause why he should not be disbarred and punished for contempt of the court for having committed perjury before the committee on grievances of the Colorado Bar Association at a hearing before it upon charges preferred against him by the committee on order of the court. Upon that petition a citation to show cause issued, and in…