Florida Bar v. Reese

We have for review a report of the referee in this disciplinary action in which it is recommended that respondent, Frank Clyde Reese, be publicly reprimanded and charged with the costs of the proceedings against him. A hearing has not been requested.

The referee’s report includes the following :

“FINDINGS OF FACT

“After considering all of the pleadings, exhibits and evidence before me, I find that:

“1. The respondent between October 28, 1968 and November 12, 1968, did withhold from funds belonging to Harold Paul Heffernan, an absentee person, and as to which his client, Helen Rita Hef-fernan, was…