Hicks

This is an appeal from a judgment or final order unconditionally disbarring appellant, an attorney at law. It comes to ns under the title of “Raine Ewell vs. Hon. A. F. St. Sure, as U. S. District Judge,” etc., but the only relief sought is a reversal of the judgment, and the only relation the appellee so named has to the controversy arises out of the fact that as such judge he presided at the trial and entered the judgment. The title we have used is found in some of the papers and is perhaps as appropriate as any for a proceeding whieh, as will he seen, is somewhat anomalous. Upon the brief filed in resistance to the appeal the United States District Judge and the United States District Court are named as appellees, and the brief is presented upon their behalf by the United States District Attorney, who, apparently, did not participate in the trial below, but, as we infer from statements made at the argument, came into the ease after judgment, upon the request or under the direction of the presiding judge.

Of the treatment he received in his efforts to have a bill of exceptions settled, the appellant makes vigorous complaint. He represents that within the time allowed he…