Mohave County miner., 1916-08-19
GRAND JURY ENTERS UPON
 ITS DUTIES
IFrOm wsdnesday'e Daily MinerI

perlor court was convened yesterday with Judge J. A. Ellis presiding. The following grand jurors were empan- eIed: David Jenkins, Monte West lake, J. K. P. Fancher, H. s. Waite, Ed Willis, George A. Bonelli, Charles S. Seeley, Charles A. BOurquin, Frank S. Wilhelm, Fred Sturzenegger, A. L. Williams, John S. Mulligan, c. A. Stoney, Harry Knight, G. T. Duncan, c. N. Nickell, Steve Henkel, c. R. VanMarter and John L. Munds. MT. Fancher was appointed foreman.
 Courts Instructions
 In giving instructions to the jury, Judge Ellis said:
 Gentlemen of the Grand Jury:
 You have been selected from the body of the people for the purpose of making an investigation of all public offences against the laws of the state, committed within Mohave county.
 The oath that you have taken re quires you to make diligent inquiry, and true presentment of all such mat ters and things as shall be given you in charge to investigate, or which oth- erwise come to your knowledge touch ing the commission of any public of fence, and that in all indictments you shall present the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, ac- cording to the best of your under standing.
 The cases to be considered and fully investigated by you are those which will be submitted to you by the county attorney, those of which any of you may have cognizance, and any which may come to light during the course of your investigations.
 It is not your province in eOnsid- ering presentments, to determine whether the persons thus acused have been really guilty of committing the offense charged; that is the province of the trial jury. Your duty is to de termine whether there is sufficient evil dence to put a defendant on trial be- fore a trial jury. This should be legal evidence; such as would be competent in a court of justice.
 Your investigation of crimes is one sided only; it goes but to the guilt of the accused. You have no right to presume that there will be evidence upon the trial of the case that will explain or contradict the evidence pre- sented to you in support of the charge. For this reason, however, you ought to be convinced from the evidence be- fore you, unexplained and uncontra- dicted, that it would be sufficient to authorize a trial jury to convict the accused of the crime with which he stands charged, before you should find an indictment against him.
 You should receive and weigh all the evidence before you in any particular case, and if in the course of your in vestigation you have reason to believe that there is other evidence which will further explain the charge under con sideration, it will be your duty to or der such evidence to be produced. But you are not required to hear evidence for the defendant.
 If any member of the grand jury knows ,or has reason to believe, that d public offence has been committed, which is triable within the county, he must declare the same to his fellow jurors, who shall thereupOn investi- gate the same.
 It is your duty to inquire into the case of every person imprisoned in the jail of the county on a criminal charge and not indicted, or against whom an information has not been filed; and you should inquire into every wilful and corrupt misconduct in office or public officers of every de- scription within the county. You should also inquire into the condition and management of the public prisons within the county; and you are en- titled, at all reasonable times, to free access to the public prisons, and to examination, without charge, of all public records within the county.
 You have within the scope of your inquiry all public offences committed and triable within the county, and, though you take up and investigate a charge against one person, if it ap- pears from testimony taken on such examination that sufficient reasons
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