State ex rel. Adams v. Rightor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The relator seeks the writs of certiorari and prohibition to restrain the Civil District Court from further proceeding in the suit brought under the Act No. 129 of 1896, to disbar the relator from the practice of his profession as attorney at law.

The suit in the Civil District Court was instituted by ten attorneys at law, charging the relator with professional misconduct. The statute on which the proceeding is based provides that if any attorney at law shall be convicted of felony, or shall be guilty of gross professional misconduct, he may…