The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-09
final REPORT II.
MADE BY JURY
CIRCUIT COURT
TENDENCY TO DISREGARD LAW
IN SOME SECTIONS is FOUND
BY GRAND JURY.
ASKS COOPERATION or PUBLIC
Several Additional True Bills Are Re-
turned Before Jury rs Adjourned
Sine Die on Last Saturday.-Report
Given in Full.
(From Mondays Daily Herald.)

From Mondays Daily Herald)
Before adiourning sine die on Sat
urday, the grand jury made an exhaus-
tive report upon the results of its la
bors, and included therein recommen-
datiOns to secure more rigid en-
forcement of the laws on the statute
books.
Several additional true bills were
returned at that time. These indict-
ments were returned as follows: One
for passing worthless check, one for
| carrying a pistol, two for unlawfully
transporting liquor, one for selling
| liquor without license, one for failing
to provide for child, one for assault
to commit murder in the first degree.
After investigating the county insti-
buttons, the jury made its report upon
| conditions as they found them. 1t was
found that all the houses at the county
work house are clean and comfortable,
and prisoners say they have all they
want to eat. =
The county farm, or poor house,
was found in satisfactory condition,
the twenty-three inmates are we'll
cared for. 1t was recommended that
certain repairs be made on some of
the buildings.
The committee which inspected the
Jail found the prisoners well fed and
cared for, but it was reported that the
mems quarters on the lower floor
is very dirty and in an unsanitary
condition" The women's quarters
were found in satisfactory condition
1t as suggested that the walls be cal
cymimed or whitewashed and that
more lights be installed.
The report of the jury on general
conditions and recommendations fol-
lows in full:
ITO the Hon. w. B. Turner, Judge
Of the 18th judicial circuit of the state
of Tennessee:
"We, the grand jury for Maury
county, November term, nineteen
twenty-one, respectfully report first:
81. That we have investigated all
of the bound over and Jail cases with
care and have returned indictments in
such cases as the evidence in our
Judgment warranted
"2. We have summoned a large
number of witnesses from different
sections of county when complaints
have been made, and have returned
indictments and presentments in such
of these cases as in our Judgment the
evidence warranted.
49, We have investigated the bonds
of county officials, administrators and
guardians and in our judgment these
are solvent.
a. We through a committee visit
ed the county farm and we file here
hibit No ] to this report and make
the same part thereof
IS. We through committee visit
ed the county workhouse and find it
we'll kept and the prisoners we'll
Il
Report of committee exhibit No. Q
is made part of this report.
&C. Through committee we visit
ed the county aijl and after hearing
the committees report the attention
of the sheriff was called to some of
the suggestions made in the report,
and we have been informed by men,
bers since investigating the jail that
the sheriff has corrected the condi-
tons complained of in so far as he is
able, but the recommendations Of the
subcommittee We think should be re-
ferred to the county court and the
Jail made more sanitary and lighter.
The report of the subcommittee is
made part of this eport as exhibit
No. 8.
-. Our general Investigations of
conditions throughout the county in
dictate that in many sections there is
a strong tendency to disregard law
and it is our opinion that the effec-
tive enforcement of the law in the fu-
ture is in a vary large measure de-
pendent upon the extent to which the
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