In Re Patlak

This disbarment proceeding originally came to this court on a report of the commissioners of this court dated December 18, 1933, made on testimony heard on complaints by some twenty different complainants. In the interim respondent was tried and convicted in the criminal court of Cook county on an indictment charging larceny. This court reversed the conviction in People v. Patlak, 363 Ill. 40, and, on motion of respondent, the cause was re-referred to the commissioners on April 21, 1936, and by that order this court directed the commissioners to permit respondent to offer evidence in his own…