Ex Parte Dozier

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a petition directed to this Court seeking to review a proceeding by the grievance committee of the State Bar before the hoard of commissioners of the State Bar to disbar petitioner from the practice of law in Alabama. The proceeding was begun on June 27, 1950 by filing charges in writing against- petitioner. We shall .hereafter refer to petitioner as defendant.

The proceeding has a legal status and the board of commissioners is vested by, law with the duty to consider the findings ■ or recommendations of the grievance committee and to hear and determine the complaint or…