The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-11
kellison Speaks at Bar Association.

kellison Speaks at Bar Association.
Il think | am not stating it too
when | say that there have
been times within the last twenty
years following the trial of cases that
have attracted widespread attention
when every person who had closely
followed the evidence was convinced
that justice had been trampled on
and the jury befogged by the brazen
falsehoods and mendacious opinions
of professional experts and times
when, if the matter had been speci-
ally submitted to the popular judg
ment and decision, the whole insti-
tuition of expert evidence would have
been swept away with one mighty
blast of public disapproval."
This was the keynote of speech
delivered at the State Bar Associa-
ton meeting at the Country Club
Tuesday by Charles Kellison, an at
torney CT Plymouth. Mr. Kellison
was educated to be a. physician, but
afterward took up the practice of
law
Continuing the attorney said: THE
attempt to suppress or conceal the
truth or to state half truth is no
better than to speak falsely The
conclusion is irresistible that if ex-
pert evidence is valuable and neces-
sary auxiliary for ascertaining the
truth in certain cases, and in melting
out exact justice to- litigants, the
bench and bar are mainly responsible
for those miscarriages of justice that
are mainly attributable to the en-
ployment of such evidence When we
consider that the machinery of the
law is wholly in the hands of the
judges and the lawyers and that it is
they alone who direct and control
that machinery in its practical opera
TONS there is no escape from this
conclusion
There is in my judgment but one
rational or truthful way to account
for the situation that | have endeav-
ored to describe and that is that the
use and employment OF expert evil
dence and expert witnesses have been
rankly misused and abused by GER
tain members of the legal profess
sion"
The state association convened
Tuesday morning at ! o'clock. The
entire morning was devoted to the
address of the president, Daniel Fras-
err OF Fowler. He discussed the
courts and the Legislature.
Beyond mere physical and admin
istrative affairs" he said, "the people
are not at all concerned with the acts
of the Legislature until they are
brought to- their notice by the asser-
ton that rights are created thereun-
der or liabilities imposed thereby
And it is very seldom that they are
content TO recognize and admit with
ont dispute the validity or construc-
ton of any law which. when applied
to their conduct and affairs, works
any hindrance or hurt to- them. And
before any law receives the sanction
of our peopel it must be shown by
practical illustration in the open
Court House, where every man has
his day. and said his rede concerning
ii, that greater good than evil will
attend its progress.
"In the main the courts have been
| faithful to the great trust reposed in
them, and right we'll they deserve the
confidence of the people.
Charles W. Miller, former attorney
general, created something of SEN
sation in the meeting by his attack
on the criminal code of the state and
the state Supreme and Appellate
Courts. He declared that the Grim
inal code of Indiana is almost worth
less"
The members of the association
took supper at the Country Club and
returned to the city at an early hour
| Wednesdays session was held in the
| district court room at the Fedora
Building. beginning at 10 o'clock
The address of Fl. B. Tuthill of Mich
igan City, which was to have beer
delivered Tuesday. was postponed un
til Wednesday, The subject is care
Corporations I'll Treated? AnC
Why? Other papers read Wednesda,
we're the following:
Legislative and Judicial Develop
ment of the Law Concerning Compe
tition Contrasted." Merritt Starr
Chicago; Legal Ethics" Andrew A
Adams, Columbia ely; "Our Soutl
American Relations John w. o.
Hara, Peru, consul to Montevideo.-
Indianapolis Star.
Glass Workers Union in Convention