In re McCarthy
Michigan Supreme Court
Proceedings to disbar- an attorney, brought by a committee appointed by the Bar Association of Grand Bap-ids. The respondent was charged with having been convicted on an information for obtaining money under false pretenses, to which information he pleaded guilty. It satisfactorily appeared to the court by the record of conviction to be true, and he was accordingly disbarred.
1Opinion of the Court
Upon the hearing, some members of the Bar Association of Grand Bapids appeared in support of the prosecution, and some controversy arose between the respondent and those gentlemen .coneernirig their procedure and certain difficulties which had arisen in that city which he claimed were open to complaint on his part.
The Court, however, intimated that the proceeding was one whie'h had nothing- to do with that Association and was not under its management, and must be treated as purely in the interests of public justice, and declined to allow any controversy except as to the merits.
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