People ex rel. Eli v. Benson
Supreme Court of Colorado
Proceedings in Disbarment. The attorney general filed an information charging the respondent Horace G. Benson, an attorney of this court, with unprofessional conduct, and praying for his disbarment. Issues of fact were duly joined, evidence taken, and the case thus made has been submitted upon oral argument of counsel. Nominally, four charges are preferred against the respondent.
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Proceedings in Disbarment. The attorney general filed an information charging the respondent Horace G. Benson, an attorney of this court, with unprofessional conduct, and praying for his disbarment. Issues of fact were duly joined, evidence taken, and the case thus made has been submitted upon oral argument of counsel. Nominally, four charges are preferred against the respondent. First, the procuring of straw bail for defendants in a criminal case; second, attempting to compound a felony; third, defrauding the petitioner Frank Eli of Ms money; fourth, abusing the process of the court. . The…
1Opinion of the Court
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We are clearly of the opinion that there is no evidence at all to sustain the first charge. Whether or not the justice of the peace was imposed on in the matter of the bail which was accepted by him, resulting in the release of the prisoners, is not material to this inquiry; for, if there was any fraud, the respondent is not shown to have participated therein.
The second charge, that of attempting to compound a felony, is altogether the most serious in character, and, if established, should result in the permanent disbarment of the respondent.
For the purposes of this case, it is…
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