In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against Caughlan

*564Ott, C. J.

(dissenting) — John Caughlan was charged in a federal court with the crime of wilfully failing to file federal income tax returns for the years 1955 and 1956. He pleaded not guilty to both counts of the information. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to serve 8 months on each count, in the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island, the sentences to run concurrently.

In addition to this conviction, the hearing panel of the Washington State Bar Association found the following facts, as charged in the second item of the formal complaint, to be true:

“The following is a summation of the…