Matter of Emmons

At all times mentioned in the record of this proceeding respondent was, and he now is, an attorney at law admitted to practice in the courts of California. On the sixth day of August, 1915, a petition for his disbarment was filed in the supreme court by a bar association of Kern County, and the matter was thereafter transferred to this court. The petition is based upon a judgment of conviction whereby the respondent was convicted of a felony for asking and receiving a bribe, and a duly certified copy of the judgment of conviction is attached to the petition and is a part thereof. That judgment was rendered on October 31, 1905, and on the twelfth day of March, 1908, was affirmed by the district court of appeal for the third district. The sentence was for five years’ imprisonment,, the remittitur was filed on May 18, 1908, and the term of actual imprisonment began a few days later.

The petition for disbarment is based solely on the judgment of conviction. Apart from that judgment no charge is made that the respondent has committed any act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty, or corruption, or any other act which would be a cause of disbarment. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 287.)…