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GRAND JURY(Continued from page one)lime :in«I taxpayer's money might I hr saved. I’resrnt plans rail for speedy work with tlir grand jm v. and Mr. Meadows is insistent ilia! if all cooperate as they should, the work of the grand jury which usually lasts from three to foui days. more often four, can he rut to one day. I here is absolutely no reason on earth why a grand jury should require more than i day to hear the evidence in all the eases,” said the prosecuting at-} torney, “and I want it made clear that I will do evervthing in my power to see that no tune is w asted at the expense of the t i\-pawrs of tins county. I know, and Judge Kilgore also knows that the work can easily he accomplished in one day. We do not |il.in to permit any dilly-dally* in. t a flies. | he time allowed the grand jury will he cut at least two-thirds, with a resultant saving to the taxpayers of a proportionate amount of money.’*1‘ecords of the circuit clerk’s, office show that the d uly cost for grand juries is approximately for- 1 t\ dollars. If flu court officials are successful ill their attempts to lt;id this expense 66 icr rent, it will mean a sasing of more than righfv dollars to the county in grand jury pay alone, and will j naturally foreshadow other speed and saving in the later work of the criminal court, a thing that Judge Kilgore accomplished in the January term.
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Beckley Register Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Fri, Mar 17, 1933
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