Harris v. State

_ T . LAWSON, Justice.

This is a most confusing record.

We construe the record to show that Honorable Lea Harris, a practicing attorney of the Montgomery County Bar, was called before the Grand Jury of .Montgomery County on November 13, 1967, and was. asked the following question: “Who contacted you to represent Gary Cooper?”

Mr. Harris refused to answer on the ground that the question called for a privileged communication between attorney and client.

On his refusal to answer, Mr. Harris was immediately presented in open court before the presiding judge, who had impaneled the grand jury, and the…