People v. Minet

There is presented for our consideration the problem whether a district attorney may call two witnesses before the grand jury at one and the same time. It arises because the complaining witness, Camille Harris, who was under the age of eighteen, after being subpoenaed to attend, made representations to the District Attorney through her father and sister, Hilma, aged twenty-two, that she was “ somewhat afraid or nervous They thereupon requested that both sisters be permitted to enter the grand jury room together. The District Attorney, after first demurring, consulted the grand jurymen and…