In Re Steen

Acting under a resolution adopted by the State Bar Association, a special committee of that association has instituted in this court a proceeding for the disbarment of the respondent Steen, who is a member of the bar here. The charge against respondent is the bribery by or through him of a state officer. If this charge be true, it would follow that respondent would with equal readiness bribe a witness, or a juror, or, if possible, a judge of a court, wherefore, instead of being a fit minister in the law he would be a menace to its administration.

But the sufficiency of the charge as stating an…