Clerk or sheriff not to act as attorney

No clerk of any court of record in this state or sheriff, while he continues to act as such, shall under any pretense whatever act as an attorney at law in the court of which he is clerk or in the county in which he is sheriff. Rev. Stat., ch. 15, § 9; C. & M. Dig., § 602; Pope's Dig., § 642; A.S.A. 1947, § 25-107. No clerk of any court of record in this state or sheriff, while he continues to act as such, shall under any pretense whatever act as an attorney at law in the court of which he is clerk or in the county in which he is sheriff. Rev. Stat., ch. 15, § 9; C. & M. Dig., § 602; Pope's Dig., § 642; A.S.A. 1947, § 25-107.