THE FLORIDA BAR v. SMITH

No. 35927.

195 So.2d 852 (1967)

THE FLORIDA BAR, Complainant, v. Wallace R. SMITH, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry P. Duffett, Ormond Beach, for The Florida Bar, complainant.

James B. Clayton, DeLand, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

Respondent, Wallace R. Smith, a member of The Florida Bar, was charged with knowingly entering into a bigamous marriage with a client; withholding from the client-wife the knowledge that she was not free to marry because her divorce from her then husband had not been entered; and concealing from the court in a subsequent suit for divorce against the client-wife that she was pregnant.

After a trial the referee found the respondent guilty of the...

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