fix lint failures with 1.31 (#5489)

rpc/client/examples_test.go

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func ExampleHTTP_simple() {
 	rpcAddr := rpctest.GetConfig().RPC.ListenAddress
 	c, err := rpchttp.New(rpcAddr, "/websocket")
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatal(err)
+		log.Fatal(err) //nolint:gocritic
 	}
 
 	// Create a transaction
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ func ExampleHTTP_batching() {
 	// Start a tendermint node (and kvstore) in the background to test against
 	app := kvstore.NewApplication()
 	node := rpctest.StartTendermint(app, rpctest.SuppressStdout, rpctest.RecreateConfig)
-	defer rpctest.StopTendermint(node)
 
 	// Create our RPC client
 	rpcAddr := rpctest.GetConfig().RPC.ListenAddress
@@ -78,6 +77,8 @@ func ExampleHTTP_batching() {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
+	defer rpctest.StopTendermint(node)
+
 	// Create our two transactions
 	k1 := []byte("firstName")
 	v1 := []byte("satoshi")
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ func ExampleHTTP_batching() {
 		// Broadcast the transaction and wait for it to commit (rather use
 		// c.BroadcastTxSync though in production).
 		if _, err := batch.BroadcastTxCommit(context.Background(), tx); err != nil {
-			log.Fatal(err)
+			log.Fatal(err) //nolint:gocritic
 		}
 	}