# Acton v. Board of Commissioners

> Supreme Court of Alabama · June 6, 1968 · 283 Ala. 121

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7373498

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex parte E. Ray ACTON. In re E. Ray ACTON v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF the ALABAMA STATE BAR
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** June 6, 1968
- **Citations:** 283 Ala. 121; 214 So. 2d 685; 1968 Ala. LEXIS 992
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Lawson
- **Judges:** Coleman, Harwood, Kohn, Lawson, Livingston, Merrill, Simpson
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

LAWSON, Justice
(dissenting).
If the Court’s opinion is based on a holding to the effect that the burden was on the petitioner here to prove his innocence of the charges directed against him, then I would feel compelled to dissent. Re Disbarment of Charles E. Gorsuch, 76 S.D. 191 , 75 N.W.2d 644 , 57 A.L.R.2d 1355 . But I am not certain of the exact holding of the Court on that question.
That question aside, I feel that the action of the Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar should be reversed in that I am not reasonably satisfied from the evidence that petitioner is guilty of the charges made the basis of his suspension.
SIMPSON, J., concurs in the foregoing dissent.

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