Report of the Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association Volume 39 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...that the courts and the members of the courts should be regarded with respect by the suitors and the people; and that on all occasions of difficulty and danger to that department of government, they should have the good opinion and confidence of the public on their side." If the judge shall expect so much of attorneys, may not the attorney expect ai reciprocal treatment from the judge? Nothing can ever be gained by embarrassing an attorney, either from passion, or for the purpose of an exposition of the judge's wit or power. An advocate who dares to overstep his rights at the bar must be restrainjed or dealt with as the circumstances may require, but any sort of tolerance by the court of the vile and vicious notion obtaining in some quarters, and likely in some corner of every courthouse audience, that the lawyers are tricksters and obstructionists, is to discredit the very fundamentals of the judicial system, and to make believe that the court house is only a place of legal jugglery. The judge, if such there be, who does not realize that the lawyers can make his every day of court a failure, and that on the other hand they will cheerfully give their fair, unstinted and intelligent assistance to the court when they believe it is wanted and appreciated, is not enjoying the good results which his court should yield, nor are the conditions of law and order in his circuit, I imagine, what they otherwise might be. In dealing with counsel or in passing a judgment or sentence to a party in a case, the judge should remember that he holds the reins of power, and that the match is not an even one, no matter what are the merits of the cause, nor the wit or wisdom of the two; for the judge, as it were, is armed with the great power of his office, and should rememb...