 | Alabama State Bar Association. Meeting - Bar associations - 1913 - 208 pages
...and honorable means to present such defenses as the law of the land permits, to the end that no one may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law. 14. An attorney must decline in a civil cause to conduct a prosecution, when satisfied that the purpose... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1915 - 984 pages
...personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense. Having...deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law. 6. Adverse Influences and Conflicting Interests. — It Is the duty of a lawyer at the time of retainer... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 524 pages
...honorable (or lawful) means to present such defense as the law of the land permits, to the end that no one may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law." The question is one full of interest to the thoughtful student of the law, and offers many angles of interpretation.... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 626 pages
...personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense. Having...deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law." This is all very well as far as it goes, but there is another canon, bearing directly upon such cases,... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 564 pages
...honourable [or lawful] means to present such defence as the law of the land permits, to the end that no one may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law."—Law Notes. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. Whatever excuses there may have been during the early Btages... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - Legal ethics - 1917 - 656 pages
...personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense. Having...deprived of life or liberty but by due process of law.17 * * * 15. How FAR A LAWYER MAY Go IN SUPPORTING A CLIENT'S CAUSE. Nothing operates more certainly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1196 pages
...personal opinion as to the guilt of tha accused ; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense. Having...bound by all fair and honorable means, to present any defense that the law of the land permits, to the end that no person may be deprived of life or... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1919 - 806 pages
...denied proper defense. Having undertaken such defense, the lawyer is hound hy all fair and honorahle means, to present every defense that the law of the land permits, to the end that no person may he deprived of life or liherty, hut hy due process of law. The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 1082 pages
...Having undertaken such defence, he is bound by all fair and honourable means to present every defence that the law of the land permits, to the end that...deprived of life or liberty but by due process of law." I • Lawyers are ministers of justice ; that is the ideal function of the Bar, but we must understand... | |
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It is the right of the lawyer to undertake the defense of a person accused of crime, regardless of his personal opinion as to the guilt of the accused; otherwise innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense.... 
