In Re Mazuran

Upon an accusation charging Marion J. Mazuran, an attorney at law, with a violation of his professional duties and of acts involving moral turpitude, a trial was had in the superior court of Fresno County, which caused a judgment to be entered depriving the accused of the right to practice as an attorney and counselor in the courts of the state of California. From this judgment the accused has appealed.

Appellant insists at the outset that the accusation, admitting the facts therein stated to be true, does not facts to indicate or charge any conduct on the part of the accused sufficient to constitute a cause for disbarment. The accusation in substance alleges that one Steve Baker, a man of advanced years and infirm, was incapable of handling his business and personal affairs, and that within 1 ten months after the time of the dealings between him and the accused the said Baker was adjudged an incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction; that in March of 1923 the accused, an attorney at law, knowing of Baker’s infirmity and incapacity and playing upon Baker’s by reason of the fact that accused and Baker had both been born in a foreign country and spoke the same mother tongue,…