Kirby

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This cause is submitted here on certiorari from the Pulaski County Circuit Court, First Division.

The record before us is meager indeed, but the petitioner and the respondent agree in their briefs, that on December 5, 1967, the petitioner, Lynn A. Davis, while serving in the capacity of director of the Arkansas State Police, appeared before the Pulaski County grand jury, in response to a summons, and refused to answer a question propounded to him by, or on behalf of, the grand jury while it was in session.

The record does reveal that the foreman, the secretary, and the…