CORRIGAN, J.
The first of two issues raised by appellants is of transcendent importance. That issue is whether a police officer can be compelled to disclose the identity of an informer in a grand jury proceeding where the inquiry is not directed to the determination of the possible guilt of a specified person, but is a general quest as to who might have committed a crime.
On the one side of the problem before us is the scope of the investigative power of the...
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