Legal Opinion

Matter of Hawes

New York Court of Appeals

Decided January 18, 1916PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 19, 1915, which suspended the appellant, an attorney, from practice for one year.

1Per curiam

The order should be affirmed upon the

ground that there is some evidence to support the charges, and that questions relating to the comparative weight of evidence or the fairness of the sentence, whatever may be our views about them, are beyond our jurisdiction (Matter of Flannery, 212 N. Y. 610).

Willard Bartlett, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, Seabury and Pound, JJ., concur.

Order affirmed.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Matter of FlanneryNew York Court of Appeals · 1914

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. In re KellyNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
  2. In re Proceedings to Disbar BevansAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1929
  3. In re GreenfieldAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1965
  4. Matter of AxtellNew York Court of Appeals · 1931
  5. In re AxtellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1932

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