Barnes

E. M. Barnes, by petition filed in this court, prays a peremptory mandamus directing and requiring Hon. Thomas R. Lyons, judge of the District Court in and for the District of Alaska, to permit petitioner to practice as an attorney in said court. An order to show cause was issued, and the case is now presented upon the petition and the return of Judge Lyons.

It appears that petitioner was prior to March 21, 1910, an attorney at law, duly licensed to practice in all of the courts of the District of Alaska; that on that date Hon. Edward E. Cushman, sitting and acting as judge, caused to be entered in said court the following order: “Now on this day it appearing to the court that E. M. Barnes, an attorney and officer of this court, has been heretofore by a jury found guilty of a felony, to wit, of the crime of mailing an obscene, lewd, and lascivious, letter, and this day by this court sentenced therefor to be confined in the federal jail at Juneau, Alaska, for a period of six (6) months and to pay a fine to the United States of four hundred ($400) dollars, wherefore, it is ordered by the court that the said E. M. Barnes be and he is hereby removed from the bar of attorneys of this…