Baker v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 30—DISBARRING ATTORNEY— APPEAL FROM OLAY CIRCUIT COURT. cited General Statutes, chap. 12, art. 3, sec. 14. General Statutes, chap. 28, art 7, sec. 5. 2 Met. 619, Turner v. Commonwealth. 4 Blackstone, 284^88. 8 Chitty’s Rep. 58. 8 Bush, 86, Walker v. Commonwealth. 2 Duvall, 351. 5 B. & A. 898. 1 Brough. 91. 4 B. & A. 47. 7 Moore, 424^37.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion oe the court.
An information was filed in the Clay Circuit Court by the commonwealth’s attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial District, charging the appellant, George W. Baker, an attorney of that court, with willfully, fraudulently, and corruptly erasing certain words in a letter (written by the judge of that circuit to the county judge of Clay County), for the corrupt, fraudulent, and dishonest purpose of deceiving the county judge, in order to procure the latter to allow bail to one John Bishop, who had been indicted by the grand jury of that county for the…
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