In re Stein

The applicant, Samuel M. Stein, was indicted on March 13, 1935, jointly with one Michael J. Griffin and one Belle Ferguson, also known as Belle O’Brien, and convicted in the County Court of Nassau county of a felony (attempted grand larceny and conspiracy), and sentenced to imprisonment in Sing Sing Prison for from two to four years. By reason of said conviction he was disbarred by order of this court. (Matter of Stein, 244 App. Div. 540.) On July 3, 1935, his conviction was reversed by the Appellate Division, Second Department (People v. Stein, 245 App. Div. 838), and a new trial ordered on…