Zitny

-In this proceeding petitioner seeks a review of the recommendation of the Board of Governors of the State Bar that he be disbarred.

In October 1961, petitioner and one Job Denni, a councilman in the City of Cypress, were indicted on charges of conspiring to solicit bribes, soliciting bribes, and receiving bribes. The criminal acts were alleged to have occurred during three separate transactions. After a jury trial, petitioner and Denni were acquitted on all counts.

Subsequently on February 15, 1963, a local administrative committee of the State Bar charged that petitioner had solicited bribes to obtain zoning changes for certain parcels of real property and had thereby violated his oath and duties as an attorney and committed acts involving moral turpitude and dishonesty. (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 6067, 6068, subds. (a), (c), (d), and 6106.) These charges encompassed the same three transactions that had been at issue during the criminal case and were set forth in three counts. In a fourth count the committee charged that during one of the foregoing transactions, . petitioner violated rule 9 of the Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of California by commingling his…