Petition of Bowen

OPINION

By the Court,

Bat jer, J.:

On June 22, 1967, a hearing was held before a quorum of the Board of Bar Examiners in Las Vegas, Nevada, to determine the fitness of the petitioner for admission to the bar of the state of Nevada. The board was represented by Douglas J. Shoemaker, Esq., while the petitioner appeared in proper person.

The hearing revealed uncontradicted proof that the petitioner had knowingly made false statements of a material nature on his 1964, 1965 and 1967 state bar application forms concerning prior arrests and convictions.

Thereafter, at the petitioner’s request, the board…