In Re Cruickshank

This is an application for re-admission to the bar after disbarment. Petitioner was disbarred in 1918 because of the commission of an act involving moral turpitude. The grounds upon which he was excluded from the profession are shown in the opinion In re Cruickshank, 47 Cal. App. 496 [ 190 Pac. 1038 ], by which the judgment of disbarment was affirmed. The present proceeding was sent to referees with directions to take evidence and to find whether petitioner is possessed of the moral and mental qualifications necessary to entitled him to a re-admission. The findings of the referees are now before us.

The referees find that petitioner “is possessed of such moral qualifications as entitle him” to re-admission. This finding is so amply sustained by the record made before the referees that we forbear to state the evidence which supports it.

Upon the other issue it is found by the referees that “there is such doubt as to the mental qualifications of applicant that an examination is necessary to test them.” Petitioner has interposed written exception to this finding, and we have therefore been inspired to a minute exploration of the record upon which the finding is made. Petitioner,…