Tiller v. State

OPINION

BROCK, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari at the instance of the defendant to consider the propriety of the attendance of an Assistant District Attorney General before the grand jury, of his examining witnesses before that body and of the propriety of a transcript being made of the testimony of witnesses given before the grand jury and whether that transcript may be made available to the District Attorney General for his use.

The defendant was convicted in the trial court of two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive terms of 100 years in prison. The convictions…