Opinion
June 11, 1943.
Einar Chrystie for petitioner.
Alfred J. Talley for respondent.
On April 6, 1943, the respondent was duly convicted in the Court of General Sessions of the County of New York of the crimes of grand larceny in the first and second degree. Said crimes are felonies. Pursuant to subdivision 3 of section 88 and section 477 Jud. of the Judiciary Law, therefore, he should be disbarred.
The provisions of the statute above cited are mandatory. Upon proof of conviction the order of disbarment follows as matter of course, notwithstanding the pendency of an appeal from the judgment of conviction. ( Matter of Lindheim, 195 App. Div. 827. )
MARTIN, P.J., TOWNLEY, UNTERMYER, DORE and COHN, JJ., concur.
Respondent disbarred.