The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1921-06-02
Charge to the Grand Jury

Gentlemen. you have been selecte
and sworn as a grand jury for this par
ish to serve for the next six months O
until your successors have been select
ed and sworn.
l can give you no better charge
gentlemen, than to refer you to you
oaths that you have just taken: '"Iha
you will diligently inquire into and :
true presentment make of all such mat
ters that may come to your knowledge
that you will present no one through
envy, hatred or jealousy and that you
Will leave no one unpresented through
tear, favor or the hope of reward.
Your oath, gentlemen, should be your
guidance throughout your deliberations
1t Is your duty, gentlemen, to inves
tlgate all class of law violations, both
parochlal and state, within our parish
l charge you that you are an essentia
organization, constituted by the sys.
tenn OF our state government, which
makes your duty imperative in law en-
forcement. You are an important link
IN the chain of law enforcement in
this state.
will first call your attention to the
law against the carrying of concealed
weapons. 1t is violation of the law,
gentlemen, for anyone to carry upon
MS person, concealed, any pistol, razor,
dirk, bowie knife, or any other danger
Gus weapon commonly used to fight
with. 1t is not violation of the law
tor anyone to carry out openly, uncon-
cealed, any of these dangerous wea-
pons.
charge you, gentlemen, that when
you Stop the carrying of concealed
weapons and the traffic in intoxicating
liquors you are going to prevent seven
ty-hve per cent of the murders in this
country: 1t is your duty, gentlemen,
to closely investigate the violation of
this law.
1t is my duty, gentlemen. to charge
you relative to the law against con-
cubinage. Concubinage is the cohabi-
tatlon OF a man of the white or
caucaslon race with a woman of the
negro or black race. Or it may be the
Capitalization OF man OF the negro or
black race with woman of the white
or caucasion race. The purpose of this
law, gentlemen, is for the preservation
OF the purity of the white race.
1t is my duty to charge you relative
to the law against the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors. The people of this parish
as well as the state, and we may say
the nation. have decreed that prohibition
should be; that is, that the sale of in
toxirating liquors should be prohibited.
1t matters not whether you personally
believe that this is a good law or not.
it is the law of our state and We should
enforce it.
l charge you, gentlemen. that YOU
have no authority to return indictments
against those who distili liquor in this
parish, but it is your duty to investl-
gate and return indictments against
those who make sale of these intoxi-
cants.
The sale of medicines is being re.
sorted to as an intoxicant drink. l |
charge you that it is violation of the
law to sell any medicine that has two
per cent of alcohol in said medicine. if
said medicine is sold for a beverage
purpose. Medicine can be sold which
has to an extent of go or 80 per cent
OF alcohol when said medicines are sold
for medicinal purposes.
charge you, gentlemen, that YOU
are also going to find that witnesses
will testify falsely before you IN at