Ex parte Burr

con.) as follows: In the argument of a cause in this Court Mr. Burr was charged, by counsel of great respectability, with practices, unbecoming a practitioner at the bar. It was said that the charges were not made unadvisedly, and could be supported. Mr. Burr denied the truth of the allegations, and challenged an investigation. The Court thought it important to the character both of the accused, and the accusing party, as well as to the purity of the administration of justice, that charges so deliberately made, should not pass without notice. They therefore requested the gentleman, who had…