Cincinnati Bar Ass'n v. Beall, 78-1
| Decision Date | 03 May 1978 |
| Docket Number | No. 78-1,78-1 |
| Citation | 375 N.E.2d 423,54 Ohio St.2d 168 |
| Parties | , 8 O.O.3d 161 CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION v. BEALL. D.D. |
| Court | Ohio Supreme Court |
Peter W. Swenty and Robert R. Lavercombe, Cincinnati, for relator.
Beall, Hermanies & Bortz and Walter C. Beall, Cincinnati, for respondent.
Augustus Beall, III, respondent herein, admitted to the practice of law in Ohio, was charged on August 19, 1977, by the Cincinnati Bar Association, relator herein, with the violation of Canon 1 and DR 1-102 of the Code of Professional Responsibility. The cause came on for hearing in Cincinnati on November 18, 1977, before the duly appointed hearing panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline.
The complaint states that respondent was charged on an information filed April 4, 1977, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, Case No. CR1-77-30, with the offense of willfully and knowingly failing to file a federal income tax return for the year 1973, in violation of Section 7203, Title 26, U.S.Code, respondent having received a gross income in 1973 of $41,055.43. The complaint further recited that on May 16, 1977, respondent appeared in person before said court, with counsel, entered a plea of nolo contendere to the charge and was found guilty by the court. Because of this conviction, respondent is now charged with a violation of DR 1-102(A) and Canon 1 of the Code of Professional Responsibility.
For his answer to the complaint, respondent admitted his conviction as alleged, denied that he had failed to file said income tax return with intent to deceive or defeat the payment of taxes, denied "that his actions were knowingly involved with either the administration of justice or moral turpitude," denied that his late filing was for the purpose of fraudulently denying the existence of income or its amount or for the purpose of avoiding responsibility, and stated that the government was informed of his income by virtue of the partnership federal income tax return he had prepared and filed on behalf of his firm.
The chairman of the hearing panel placed in the record as the panel's Exhibit 1, a letter of Walter C. Beall, brother of respondent, dated November 14, 1977, addressed to the chairman explaining that an appearance at the hearing would not be made by him or by respondent. Relator offered in evidence Exhibit 1, consisting of copies of all documents filed in the proceedings before the United States District Court. Relator then rested and the chairman declared the hearing concluded.
The board found that the offense of failure to file an income tax return constituted misconduct on the part of the respondent and was a basis for...
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