HAYSLIP v. STATE


249 S.W.2d 882 (1952)

HAYSLIP v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.E. Madden and Sam F. Cole, Memphis, for petitioner.

John M. Heiskell, District Attorney General of Shelby County, acting as Amicus Curiae, and Greenfield Q. Polk, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen. of Shelby County, also acting as Amicus Curiae, for respondent.


BURNETT, Justice.

This case comes to us on a motion of the petitioner, Maurine D. Hayslip, to expunge from a report of the Grand Jury of Shelby County certain portions of that report. The gravamen of the complaint is that the report, or the portions complained of, was extra-judicial and not within the province of a grand jury under the Constitution and laws of this State.

The trial court denied the petition to expunge and as a result thereof this appeal followed...

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