In Re the Proceedings for the Disbarment of Barnett

This is a proceeding for the disbarment of Garfield C. Barnett, Jr., authorized to practice law before the courts of this state. The record presented to us by the board of governors of the state bar association discloses that Barnett was, May 13, 1948, convicted in the United States district court, western district of Washington, northern division, of the crime of bartering and exchanging a large quantity of narcotics, and with conspiring with others to sell, barter, and exchange narcotic drugs. The defendant in that case was sentenced to imprisonment in the Federal penitentiary for a period…