In re Cohen

The respondent was admitted to the bar in January, 1899, in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department. On August 4, 1926, he was convicted of a felony, to wit, the crime of subornation of perjury,^[1] in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for a period of eighteen months. Section 477 of the Judiciary Law provides: “ Any person being an attorney and counsellor-at-law, who shall be convicted of a felony, shall, npon such conviction, cease to be an attorney and counsellor-at-law, or to be competent to practise law as such.” Upon his said conviction and under the provisions of the statute,^[2] the respondent should be disbarred. Present — Dowling, P. J., Finch, McAvoy and Martin, JJ. Respondent disbarred.