In Re Ellis

This disciplinary matter arises from certain facts disclosed in January, 1949 upon the trial of an -income tax case in the Federal Court. The Advisory Committee, established by our Rule 5, on March 21, 1949 of its own motion duly notified Royle Ellis and Emory C. Medlin, practicing members of the Barry County, Missouri bar, hereinafter referred to as “these attorneys”, that it proposed to hold an informal hearing upon the matter of their professional conduct as disclosed by their own sworn testimony in the United States District Court in the case of United States v. Emory E. Smith.…