King v. Lewis

Heid, Chief Justice.

Merritt Lewis, a negró farmer, while appearing before a Quitman County grand jury, made statements that J. C. Gay, sheriff of the county, had been stealing money, and that for forty dollars he had released a defendant in a pending *595criminal prosecution. It is not clear from the record just how he came to make these statements; that is, whether they were made in response to questions on some issues as to which he had been called to testify, or whether they were gratuitously made by him on questions not under inquiry by the grand jury. Others claimed to have heard Lewis make…