Schmid v. State

Mobley, Presiding Justice.

The appeal in this case is from a judgment disbarring the appellant from the practice of law in this State. In his motion to dismiss he attacks the constitutionality of Code § 9-501 (1), which authorizes disbarment upon conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude and makes evidence of suck conviction conclusive, thus depriving him of the right to defend himself. While he enumerates the denial of this motion as error, the constitutional question made therein was not argued orally or by brief. Under numerous decisions of this court, the ground will be considered as…