Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Bar Ass'n v. Burton

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided January 15, 1907No. 5689PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Original Proceeding in Disbarment. ' On Motion. Proceedings in disbarment by The People, on the relation of The Colorado Bar Association, against Francis L. Burton. Motion for judgment on the pleadings.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Steele

The respondent was admitted to practice in this • state as an attorney at law on March 9, 1896, and the' information states that he has been guilty of gross professional malconduct in that, under an indictment charging him with felony, to wit, grand larceny, he was, on the 18th day of September, 1903, tried, convicted and sentenced in the superior court for criminal business at Boston, in the state of Massachusetts.

The defendant, in his answer, denies that he has been guilty of gross or other professional malconduct, as charged in the information, or at all; admits that he was tried,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Colorado Bar Ass'n v. WebberSupreme Court of Colorado · 1899

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. In Re the Petition of KaufmannNew York Court of Appeals · 1927
  2. Louisiana State Bar Ass'n v. ConnollySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1942
  3. People v. EnlowSupreme Court of Colorado · 1957
  4. Page v. WatsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1938
  5. Louisiana State Bar Ass'n v. PonderSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1976

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