Ex parte Walls

73 Ind. 95
CourtIndiana Supreme Court
DecidedNovember 15, 1880
DocketNo. 8678
StatusPublished
Cited by52 cases

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Ex parte Walls, 73 Ind. 95 (Ind. 1880).

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Biddle, C. J.

— Application by the appellant to be readmitted to practice law in the Boone Circuit Court, made by motion in writing, in the following words :

“The said William B. Walls comes, and humbly showeth unto the court, that heretofore, to wit, on the 6th day of September, in the year 1871, he was an attorney at law, duly admitted to the practice of the profession of law as such, in all courts of record, of and in the State of Indiana, and entitled to all and singular the rights and privileges of the said office of attorney at law ; that afterwards, to wit, on the 6th day of October, in the year 1877, under and by the order and direction of the Boone Circuit Court, then in session, one Thomas J. Terhune, Esq., was appointed and directed to institute proceedings against him, the said Walls, to remove him from the said office of attorney, and debar him from the practice of his said profession, and afterwards, to wit, on the 4th day of February, in the year 1878, the said Terhune, in pursuance of the order and direction of said court, did institute proceedings against him, said Walls, to remove him from said office of attorney and disbar him as such ; and he shows unto the court that the charge in the said complaint against him was, in substance, that he had falsely and corruptly forged, made and uttered, as true and genuine, a certain false and forged affidavit, purporting then and there upon its face to be the true and genuine affidavit of one Jacob L. Green, and to have been made by said Green for the purpose of procuring and obtaining a change of venue in a certain action pending in the Boone Circuit Court, in which • the Thorntown District Council of the [97]*97Patrons of Husbandry was plaintiff, and the said Jacob L. Green was defendant; that he made answer to said complaint, denying each and every allegation thereof so far as the same charged him with any wrongful act; but he says that, upon the trial of said proceeding, he was found to- be guilty of the wrongful and improper conduct charged against him in said complaint and proceedings, and was by said court adjudged to be guilty thereof, and suspended from the office of an attorney, and disbarred from the practice of law ; and he says that he has ever since been denied the privilege and rights of an attorney, and still is. He says that said trial and judgment took place soon after the charges were first made against him, and that he was not at that time able fully to prepare himself therefor, and was surprised by the testimony of William I. Sutton, who testified that he, said: Sutton, did not make the affidavit and swear to it, which he, said Walls, was charged with having falsely made and' uttered. Whereas he, the said Sutton, had made • said affidavit and sworn to it, although the same was written in the name of, and subscribed by the name of, said Jacob L. Green, and upon the face thereof appeared to be the affidavit of said Green, and the same was so made in the name of said Green upon its face, in the hurry of business and by mistake; whereas it was in fact written for and was subscribed by said Sutton with his mark and sworn to by him, and was in fact the genuine affidavit of said Sutton, and wasuttered by your petitioner in good faith, and not as a false, forged and counterfeit affidavit, or with any thought, intent or purpose whatever to cheat or deceive said court. And he avers that after the said affidavit was so made, uttered, published and used by him, he was indicted in the Boone Circuit Court upon and for the charge and crime of perjury, in swearing upon the trial of said proceedings against him to disbar him, that said Sutton subscribed said affidavit, and-that it was a genuine affidavit of said Sutton; and he says [98]*98that he appeared to said indictment and pleaded not guilty thereto, and for trial thereof put himself upon the country; and afterwards, to wit, on the 22d day of February, in the year 1879, in the said Boone Circuit Court, he was by a jury of his country found not guilty of said crime of perjury, and fully acquitted and discharged thereof and therefrom by said jury, by their verdict duly found and returned into open court, and by the judgment of the' court thereon; and he now avers and charges that said prosecution upon said indictment involves the same issues in effect and fact as those involved in the charge brought against him to disbar him, and that upon the trial of said indictment he was able to prove facts which tended to prove, and did prove, that said Sutton had made the affidavit which was in controversy in the proceedings brought against him to disbar him ,- all of which evidence he was not able to prove upon the trial in that proceeding, owing to the recentness of said charge and the confusion resulting from the surprise occasioned by the testimony of said Sutton ; and he says that said testimony, so by him procured up the trial of said indictment, was true, and still is true, and that the denial of said affidavit and the making thereof by said Sutton is not and was not true. And he says that he ivas wrongfully suspended from the office of attorney at law and disbarred from the practice of his said profession, when he ought not to have been, by reason of his innocence of the charge in said complaint filed against him by said Thomas J. Terhune, Esq., under the direction of said court; and, as he humbly conceives, he is fairly entitled to be restored to the practice of his profession, and to all and singular the rights and privileges pertaining to the office of attorney and counsellor at law.

“He says that he is a male person, over the age of twenty-one years, and a resident and elector of Boone county, and State of Indiana, and that he is a man of good moral character, and, as such, entitled to be admitted to practice law [99]*99•and to enter upon the office and duties of an attorney at law; and in support of this last allegation he herewith files the affidavits of the following named persons: J. W. Nichol, J. H. Blackburn, A. Robinson, James W. Garner, William L. Gregory, Charles S. Riley, B. W. Stewart, D.M. Henry, A. G. Porter, James A. Nay, T. A. Andrews, Isaac Robinson, Abner H. Shepherd, James W. Cavin, William H. Harrison, Bradford Epperson, James Bragg, John A. Hysong and William Edwards, and makes each of them a part hereof. And he prays that he may be reinstated to the office of attorney, and to all and singular the rights and privileges thereof, and, as in duty bound, he will ever pray.

“William B. Walls.

“By Hill & Nichol, his attorneys.”

The petition was sworn to bj^ the applicant. The affidavits referred to in it were filed as exhibits with it.

Upon the petition of twenty-one practicing attornej'-s of the Boone Circuit Court, alleging objections to the readmission of the applicant, the court appointed, of their number, C. S. Wesner, R. W. Harrison, T. J. Cason and Oliver P. Mahan to appear and resist the appellant’s motion for readmission to the bar, to which the appellant excepted. They alleged in writing, and filed, thirty-five objections to the readmission of the appellant. As the court in its special finding has referred to several of these as being found true, it becomes necessary to simply state such of them as the court did not strike out, which may be done, in substance, as follows:

II. That the petitioner is a man of bad moral character. .

III, IV, V, VI, VII, XX and XXI. The petitioner wrote, and caused to be published in the Indianapolis Journal and Herald, a false and slanderous charge against Judge Truman H. Palmer, in the month of May, 1878, which charge is set forth.

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