Kentucky State Bar Association v. Stivers

This proceeding comes before us on a rule to show cause why the respondent, Harold D. Stivers, should not be suspended from the practice of law for a period of three years and required to pay the costs of the disciplinary proceeding out of which the rule arose, RCA 3.450 (now RCA 3.410).

A charge was instituted by the Kentucky State Bar Association alleging that in June of 1969 the respondent, a member of the bar, “knowingly caused to be written and mailed a letter to Mrs. Mary L. Vertrees for the purpose of solicitation in direct violation of Canon 27 of the American Bar Association’s Canons…