Rowland v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment suspending for six months Chas. T. Rowland, as an attorney at law, from the practice of law. The complaint was signed by seven practicing-attorneys. While article 314, Rev. Statutes, says “a practicing attorney * * * may file * ⅜ * a sworn complaint,” etc., still there is no statutory prohibition against more than one such joining in the complaint. We are not able to believe that a jury who heard the testimony and were properly instructed as to the law would 'be so unmindful of their oath as to give any evidentiary weight to the fact that seven lawyers signed…