State v. MILAM

Ethridge, O.

The problem here is to determine whether testimony before a grand jury by appellees, H. E. Milam and S. L. Milam, was given under such circumstances as to render it involuntary and therefore unusable as the basis of a criminal prosecution.

In September, 1948, H. E. and S. L. Milam operated a store in Crowder, Quitman County, Mississippi, which was burglarized. They suspected that Chism and Tiner had committed the crime and proceeded individually to try to arrest them on the highway. . Chism escaped but Tiner was “arrested” by them and taken to the sheriff. Tiner was there…