The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1952-09-11
Delivers Charge 10 Septem-
Der Term Monday Morn
ing In Court Room

] ! I at tNilN VI lliN NlIiilill law w
touring within the confines of Gar
llett County. Your body is a part
! Of the machinery of government.
! having for its object the detection
| and punishment of crime; it Is
an appendage of the court under
whose supervision you are en-
ipaneled. The grand jury has no
! legal existence aside from the
court which calls it into existence,
land upon which it is attending. 1t
does not become, after it is sum-
imoned, empaneled, and sworn, an
/ independent planet, as it were, in
| the judicial system, but still re-
mains an appendage of the court
on which it is attending. The grand
jury is regarded as an informing
or accusing body rather than as a
/ judicial tribunal.
The grand jury is Of very an
Gent origin in the history of Eng
land, going back many centuries.
! For long period its powers were
not clearly defined, and it would
seem, from the accounts Of COM
mentatols on the laws Of that
country, that it was at first a body
which not only accused, but also
tried, public offenders. However
this may have been in its origin,
the grand jury was, at the time of
the settlement of this country, an
informing and accusing tribunal
only, without whose previous ac-
I ton no person charged with a
felony could, except in certain
special cases, be put upon his trial.
/ In the struggles which at those
times arose III England between
/ the powers of the King and the
rights of the subject, it often stood
as a barrier against persecution IN
/ his name, until. at length, it came
to be regarded as an institution by
which the subject was rendered
secure against oppression OF un-
/ founded prosecutions Of the crown.
/ While it can hardly be said that
/ It's value as a bulWark against the
oppression of the Sovereign was
necessary to its pelpetuation IN
/ this country. since there has sell
/ dom been any contest in this coun-
/ try between the government and
the citizen which required the eN-
iStence Of the grand jury as pro
I lection against oppressive action
+ OF the government yet the grand
Jury was adopted here, has been
generally continued from consider.
ations sialllal4, tonthose which give
to it it's chief Value in England,
and is designed as a means not
only of bringing to trial persons
accused of Oftenses upon just
citlzen against uniouh I f,' aee" a.
Vl"il7' "lleli'ei my 'o'iie ii1 i,i L'-
government OF are PIo5 ;,..,t pS
Pai tls''l passion VI PiiN"'e '''-
NIFTY
The grand jury system, mas been
abolished in England and some OF
the states of this country; but, IN
Maryland and many other Jullsdlc.
lions, it stands yet as bulWark OF
justice in the administration OF the
criminal law.
In MARYLAND. your body is in
disoensable. This is so, because
under the basic law. the Constitu-
finn Of this State. no person NAV
Inc prosecuted for HIGH criminal Of
fnnses nvcept Inv a previous pre-
SON mont or Indictment of a Grand
iuIv.
NJ Coa.+;+n+;on ana Docl.ro-
-" D;IaItl' ~ H1o,.,,Iand which
.loil u itiT ~ W ;t'i.e' mo
- " pa VI .l C'tV " G.inoi'' ~ tban,
uiiiquc ~ .,.''o ,,O4 ..T,,,J ~.
| leiill'IIH ca ~ Oo'i! e ,.+;3oI1
put per tliie'l n Pi"n l4ioii' " " P;@btS
=" "l the Dc0i"i '''i0ii Vi
are: .1.4 - L. +,I.o,,
ilat no man o"Eii' ~ nc Co" en-,
or imprisoned Il' II, any of f'f al,
nCr az uG9IIoSeu Vi uepi w. L. ", ~ ~,
!iIG' llpeIUS or piol'elvg' p..' 10y ~ t ti,o
JudGlIeHI u ms Peel0' VI ~ Ui'0
law ", u lilc l" ~ A., 1dv
ne "oiuS Vi!e ld rw " Uiie 90 ,f''i" e
are contained Ii4 III Il , Cnap'gi - 80 ~
NlaslId Olai "a " i1i,s if'i,u CT -, ),
eq tI,i " u1T Plotc'9 W 10 ,r,,
mere Is uo'' i go %ar 49,
you as Srahu jurors Vi Hal 81
soc 0.'' hat na,.ties AGAINST whom
there is a just ground to charge
the commission of a CRIME shall be
held to answer the charge; ana on
the other hand, duty to the cltl7
zen to see that he IS not subjected
to prosecution upon accusations
having no better foundation thah
public clamor or private malice.
Whether or not an accused Is
brought to trial on any charge de-
ponds solely upon your detefmlh-
alton, and no one may even Sug-