In Re Disbarment of Crum

On January 22, 1924, this court had before it on demurrer the case of Janzen v. Crum, 50 N. D. 544, 197 N. W. 138.

The plaintiff claimed that the defendant, C. L. Crum, as an assistant attorney general, appointed to prosecute O. N. Janzen upon a charge of embezzlement, demanded of, and received from C. N. Janzen and Bertha Janzen the sum of $Y00 on a promise of immunity. The defendant demurred to the complaint, claiming that the agreement-pleaded was void as against public policy and criminal.

This court rendered its opinion, holding such an agreement to be void. The matter, however, being…