Maginnis's Case
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 108, Jan. T., 1921, by E. J. Maginnis, Third Assistant District Attorney, from order of Q. S. Schuylkill Co., March T., 1920, Misc. Docket 35, making absolute rule to disbar In re Rule against E. J. Maginnis. Rule to show cause why E. J. Maginnis should not be disbarred. Before Bechtel, P. J., Berger and Koch, JJ. See 16 Schuylkill L. R. 396. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court made the rule absolute. Respondent appealed.
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Appeal, No. 108, Jan. T., 1921, by E. J. Maginnis, Third Assistant District Attorney, from order of Q. S. Schuylkill Co., March T., 1920, Misc. Docket 35, making absolute rule to disbar In re Rule against E. J. Maginnis. Rule to show cause why E. J. Maginnis should not be disbarred. Before Bechtel, P. J., Berger and Koch, JJ. See 16 Schuylkill L. R. 396. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court made the rule absolute. Respondent appealed. Error assigned, among others, was order, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,
' This appeal is from an order of the Court of Quarter Session of Schuylkill County, disbarring appellant, E. J. Maginnis, and directing the clerk of that tribunal to transmit a copy of the record to the court of common pleas and the orphans’ court of the district, presumably for the purpose of further disbarments.'
No formal allegations of professional misconduct were entered against respondent by any complainant; but— as appears from a declaration to that effect by one of the judges of the court below, contained in the notes of testimony — certain…
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