State Ex Rel. Baxley v. Strawbridge

HARWOOD, Justice.

We are in accord with the result reached in this proceeding by the Court of Criminal Appeals, 52 Ala.App. 685, 296 So.2d 779.

For the sake of clarifying our denial of this pettion for writ of certiorari, we wish to make the following observations.

The case of State v. Revere, 232 La. 184, 94 So.2d 25, so strongly relied on by the petitioner Strawbridge is inapposite. This for the reason that in Revere the party present in the grand jury room and operating the recording device was an investigator in the District Attorney’s office. In the present case the District Attorney, who…