Ackerman v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for barratry; punishment, a fine of $5.00.

Our barratry statute, article 430, P. C., makes penal the act of “any attorney at law who shall seek or obtain employment in any suit or case at law, or in equity, to prosecute or defend the same, by means of personal solicitation of such employment, or by procuring another to solicit for him employment in such case.” It is charged in the information in this case that appellant.“was then and there an attorney at law”; *126also that he did then and there “unlawfully and willfully seek and obtain employment in a suit at law,” and…