In Re the Disbarment of Sellers

Bridges, J. Tbe state board of law examiners have recommended to us tbe disbarment of Arthur C. Sellers. Tbe facts are very brief. For tbe past few years, Mr. Sellers has been a duly admitted and practicing attorney at law in tbe state of Washington. On October 14, 1926, be pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery in tbe first degree, pursuant to an information theretofore filed against him. On tbe same day be was sentenced to serve from two to three years in tbe state penitentiary at Walla Walla, and is now confined therein. By a letter dated October 20, 1926, and addressed to this court, Mr. Sellers requested that bis name be stricken from tbe list of attorneys entitled to practice law in this state and consented that an order might be made and entered disbarring him from tbe practice of law in tbe state of Washington. It appearing that tbe recommendations of tbe state board of law examiners should be approved, it is now ordered and adjudged that tbe said Arthur 0. Sellers be and be is hereby disbarred and prohibited *563 from practicing the legal profession in the state of Washington, and his name is hereby stricken from the roll of attorneys., Mackintosh, C. J., Tol'man, Main, Mitchell, Fullerton, and Askren, JJ., concur.