Application of Sedillo

CARMODY, Justice.

This is an original proceeding by C. B. Sedillo, asking that he be granted, on motion, a license to practice law.

The precise question involved is whether the legislature or the court has the power to determine the qualifications of a person seeking to practice law.

Applicant does not question, and actually admits, the inherent power of the court to grant or withhold the rights of admission to the practice of law. In fact, the following statement is made in his brief :

“The petitioner is aware of, and accepts, the generally conceded rule that the power to admit a person to the…