State v. Tunstall
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. R.. S. Walker. This was a proceeding by motion, signed by D. A. Uunn, George W. Wynne, and Earle Adams, practicing attorneys-of the court where instituted, filed on the 12th day of May, A. 13. 1877, in the District Court of Houston county, against William Y. Tunstall, a licensed attorney of the said court, having for its object to strike the said Tunstall from the roll of attorneys for fraudulent and dishonorable conduct.
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Appeal from Houston. Tried below before the Hon. R.. S. Walker. This was a proceeding by motion, signed by D. A. Uunn, George W. Wynne, and Earle Adams, practicing attorneys-of the court where instituted, filed on the 12th day of May, A. 13. 1877, in the District Court of Houston county, against William Y. Tunstall, a licensed attorney of the said court, having for its object to strike the said Tunstall from the roll of attorneys for fraudulent and dishonorable conduct. On the 7th day of May, 1877, the said court, on its own motion, acting upon the report and suggestion of the grand jury then…
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Chibe Justice.
This appeal was taken from the judgment or order of the court below quashing or overruling an information or motion filed by three attorneys of said court to have appellee stricken from the roll as an attorney and counsellor at law, for alleged unprofessional and dishonorable conduct as a practicing attorney of said court.
Upon the threshold of an inquiry as to the correctness of the judgment of the District Court in this proceeding, we are confronted by the question, whether this court has jurisdiction of, or can take cognizance of, the appeal ? And, after the careful…
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