Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — ATTORNEYS GET NEW TRIAL. [ARTICLE]

ATTORNEYS GET NEW TRIAL.

Appellate Court In Darrow and Talbot Cases So Rules. The judgment disbarring Lemuel Darrow, of Laporte, and John W. Talbott, of South Bend, from the practice of law, has been reversed by the Appellate court on a technicality. The points on which it was reversed were the exclusion of evidence of Talbott’s good character and the recital in an instruction of that section of the statute which provides for an appeal in case of disbarment, and for the reinstatement of a disbarred attorney on motion. As to the first point the court said that the charge against Darrow and Talbott clearly carried with It an implication of bad character, and, therefore, brought them within the rule that a defendant whose character is attacked may offer evidence of his own good character. As to the second point, it is said that a trial judge might with equal propriety, in a felony case, read as an instruction the section of the statute prescribing the powers of the boards of control of bur prisons with reference to the parole and discharge of criminals.