An attorney is licensed and is sworn as an officer of the court. Common law proclaims him to be a minister of justice in aid of the court. Attorneys are the chief instruments of the Anglo-American system of law. An attorney at a trial is not a contestant like unto a gladiator seeking to prevail at any cost. His cause of action, as well as his opponent\u27s, depends upon a fair and impartially conducted trial. The jury\u27s verdict should be based upon the issues made by the pleadings and evidence, and not upon deceptions created by misconduct
