Lincoln v. Superior Court

On December 8, 1924, a judgment was rendered in the respondent court adjudging that the petitioner herein “be suspended and precluded from practicing as an attorney at law or as an attorney or agent of another, in and before all courts ... in the State of California, . . . and from practicing as an attorney or counsellor at law in any manner . . . for the period of one year from and after December 24, 1924.” An appeal was taken from this judgment and still remains undetermined. On July 13, 1927, another accusation was filed by the Los Angeles Bar Association against the petitioner consisting of three causes of action, the first and second counts of which charged that the accused engaged in the practice of law during the period of suspension, and the third count charged the embezzlement of funds belonging to a client of petitioner. This cause went to trial before the respondent judge on June 27, 1928, and after evidence was offered in support of and in opposition to the accusation and only after the cause was reopened for the express purpose the Bar Association offered in evidence the judgment rendered on December 8, 1924. An objection was interposed by the accused and sustained by…