Rubin v. State

The defendant is a practicing attorney of long experience. He has a thorough understanding of professional ethics, the relations that should obtain between court and counsel, and that degree of respect due from the bar to the court. In his brief the defendant gives expression to rather high-minded abstract principles which he concedes *6should prevail in the conduct of court proceedings. For instance, he says:

"We firmly hold that in the interest of justice there should be orderly procedure; that a proceeding in court should at all times be dignified; that neither judge nor attorney should,…