People Ex Rel. v. Ellis

AN original proceeding in disbarment.

May 17, 1937, the court made the following order:

"Whereas, by petition in disbarment filed April 8, 1937, the petitioner [attorney general] charged, inter alia, that `on or about December 4, 1936, respondent [Erl H. Ellis] clandestinely, secretly, without the knowledge or consent of the governor of the state of Colorado, unlawfully installed or caused to be installed, dictographs, microphones and espionage paraphernalia in the private offices of the governor of the state of Colorado. That said espionage equipment was connected by electrical writing with…