Hankamer v. Templin, Clk.

Mr. Judge Taylor,

of the Commission, delivered the opinion for the Court.

This is an original mandamus proceeding brought in this Court by Harold M. Hankamer against George H. Templin, Clerk of this Court, to compel him to enter petitioner’s name as a member of the State Bar on the rolls of the Clerk of the Supreme Court upon payment of the tendered “membership fee.”

The plaintiff alleges, in substance, that on the 23rd day of August, 1940, in the 34th District Court of El Paso County he was convicted of a felony upon jury trial on the charge of conversion of the funds of an estate, a felony,…