| Show EIGHTS OF WITNESSES AND defendants THE ways of lawyers with witnesses cre f often shameful and inexcusable so y with their language in regard to defendants whose cause they seek la 1 prejudice with the jury their and impertinence with the former when they cannot draw out the they desire to their frequently lions and their li bellous attacks on the latter especially when the crim evidence Is ia weak are alike disgraceful disgraced ul to bench and bar and subversive of ordinary civil rights the practice cannot be too on d ehmed deih ned it is a very cowardly act either to browbeat a witness or to defame aper a persia on 11 trial the glib attorney BBS agta an Z advantages the I 1 object of his bis abuse chot talk back nor explain away his pw poking accusations and hi he knows be ys j eafe ale from personal violence which ke he w be almost certain to meetie meet if 90 elded by the panoply of the law we have often wondered ergol courts do not interfere and abd protect vis and defendants from irate and slanderous members of the tee bar their conduct brings the court into con and the judge by failing to put fo 0 such vituperation becomes a imp party tia tae injustice that is perpetrated ter are re lawyers who would scorn to stopp stoop 0 o puch in decencies they are gent gentleie lepe cd above reproach A ease as in point bs j as t wp I 1 ed in ia maryl maryland in which an aki action 9 1 for er slander woe was sustained ag against iest an n attorney t who assailed assail sd the character oi a ILI ri witness on appeal the 8 superior erlo court affirmed the ot of phe lower court and said it if a counsel took advantage of his position to wante wantonly aly attack the character of a witness and to utter maliciously false accusations against a ga dinst him aud and particularly particulars y in regard to a matter that had bad no relation to the of the inquiry he was answerable is au an action for slander to the p party arty injured injure 4 this is good law lav and common justice us and we think the too frequent practice we here denounce cugat to be frowned down by the bench and that tho the bar as well as the court w would U 1 gain in dignity influence and popa popular U 14 respect it if the rights of witnesses and defendants were better protected i |
