In Re Kepler

For some time prior to February 24, 1925, petitioner was an attorney at law, practicing his profession principally in the county of San Joaquin. On that date a judgment of disbarment was pronounced against him because of certain moral delinquencies incident to his conduct in connection with a certain action in the superior court of the state, in and for the count)7 mentioned. Soon after his disbarment he removed to the county of Orange. He petitions for a reinstatement in the ranks of the profession. The petition is vigorously resisted by the bar association of each of the counties named, in lengthy answers which allege a variety of reasons why the petition should not be granted.

At the hearing before us petitioner was called to the witness-stand. As a result of his examination we are enabled to pass upon the merits of his application, without the necessity for the reference contemplated by the general rules of procedure which we have recently laid down in our opinion In re Cate, 77 Cal. App. 495 [ 247 Pac. 231 ], for the conduct of matters of a nature similar to that which now lies before us.

The facts presented to us upon the examination of the applicant as a witness are such…