The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-15

this complaint all over georgia any
day in the week.
Courts are necessary and lawyers
are necessary, for they are parts OF
our civilization and we could not get
along without them, but their useful
ness can be nullifed unless they can
and do satisfy the people who maze
them, and who must support them and
back them if they are properly sus-
tanned. A country with an impaired
court system is a country without the
logical and orderly enforcement OF
it's laws; it is country with dlsre-
spect for law, and the very failure OF
the courts to satisfy, because it can
not, adds to this disregard for law
! and order 1t may be that the fever
ish and spasmodic restlessness OF
many minds to satisfy has something
to be with the complaint, by the safer
plan is to have perfected plan OF
courts and procedure which can give
a more speedy and accurate admin
istration Of justice.
The lawyer is a sworn officer OF the
court, and owes a duty to his client,
which may be out of keeping and in
discord and conflict with the wishes
of the people, whose exponent only,
Of the peoples institution, he is in
fact. If the exponent does his work
we'll is that reason why the eX-
ponent should be condemned?
No, correct the system. Who is the
cause of the laws delay? The peo-
pie themselves, as any one can see.
| They must, through their representa-
tives, perfect their institutions. The
people do not get results as rapidly
as they should either in criminal or
civil cases. Reader do on know
why this is? The system prescribes
a long, tedious circutious road to IraV-
ell in order to reach the end. | ad-
vocate making the road short. The
system should be made more auto
matte. There is nothing sensible in
abusing the lawyer and his client for
following their legal routes. The peo-
pie can give them short road to
travel. Listen, the motion for new
| trial is the key to delay-it is the
veritable spider in the judicial pie.
1t is the main evil from which springs
most of the disease of our system,
This is the relay station where law
years wrangle and splutter, each try
ing to perform his duty under oath.
while the people grit their teeth and
cuss the laws delay. We should do
away with these delay stations and
make our system more direct and
automatic. If a lawyer is appointed
by the court, to serve his country in
representing a penniless criminal, the
aforesaid lawyer must serve without
pay, and often without kindly feeling
from any one. 1t may be it is a bad
case, but the lawyer has duty to
perform 0he same rule obtains if he
is Employed and if he gives the client
a mock trial the judge and others are
ready to hold their noses while he
| stultities his oath and his manhood
for the benefit of his country Then
il he seriously fights, he must be
abused, cussed and maybe lynched for
serving his country according to the
laws provided by thhe very people who
condemn.
Is this right, or should the rules of
the institution be changed? 1t is i'm
portant in its every detail If these
motions for new trial are the cause
which they certainly are, of al this
delay and trouble, why don's the peo-
pie who control all things get busy
and have the trouble removed? How?
and court procedure be made p:.111S1 III
throughout the state; but to kill the
spider pass a law that all motions for
new trials in all cases must be pre-
sented and passed upon by the court
and the same term the case is tried.
Require the lawyer to make his mo-
ton in open court based on the rec
ord as made in the trial. If the Judge
refuses the new trial. and the attor-
ney wishes to carry the case to the
supreme court have him file his own
exceptions. taken from the reccs q as
made, and send it to the supreme
court, recurring the stenographer to
transmit the whole record as made
TO the Supreme court in thirty days.
Then in the felony cases require the
! Supreme court to hand down a de-
cision within thirty days after they
receive the case. 1t takes more
| stenographers we had best have them,
and more judges too, rather than
have our system of justice impaired
and made a reproach. There is no
use for the most important institution
we have to be brought into public
| diSfayor and low estimation because
4 joint needs regulation Our courts
| IRE Ile pillars OIL our clVlllZdtloH anu
they must be kept above reproach and
criticism. Just as a small bolt out of
place might wreck a whole train, so
the evils of new trial may destroy a
| fine system of procedure.
We should be up and doing on this
important question in Georgia and see
that the needed changes are made.
Our whole system of courts and court
procedure needs changing and rem
ovating to meet the changing and
growing needs and demands of the
people We need uniform procedure
and uniformity of courts so that the
system will run smoothly and auto
matically without so much friction.
noise, confusion, jolts. bumps, break
downs and wrecks. If it is fixed right
and runs right satisfaction is had. and |