State v. Shumate
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Wyoming County. EC. K. Shumate was found guilty of misconduct as an attorney, and stricken from the roll, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge:
An affidavit was filed by Sbepard in the circuit court of Wyoming County against Shumate charging Shumate, who was an attorney in that court, with misconduct and malpractice as such, and thereupon the court entered an order filing that affidavit and requiring that Shumate be served with a copy of that order, and requiring him to appear to show cause why his name “shall not be stricken from the roll of practicing attorneys in this court, and deprived of the privilege of practicing his profession in this court, for the charges and causes contained in the said affidavit.” Shumate…
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