The grand jury completed its term and found 27 True Bills and 44 No True Bills.  The number of cases, especially felonies, investigated was declared in the report signed by A.A. Chappuis of Rayne, foreman, to be “unusually large, and this was deplored by jurors, who also scorned alleged efforts to intimidate witnesses or to spirit them away while the jurors were in session.  Further investigation of this matter by District Attorney James A. Gremillion was urged in the report.

The grand jury also investigated reports that certain cases had been compromised and while we are satisfied that such was the case, the evidence did not warrant true bills and we have also requested the D.A. to continue the investigation and file the necessary charges should his findings warrant such proceedings.

A side note included in the article makes note that “Although the grand jurors investigated a number of alleged violations of the state prohibition law, no indictments were returned, a survey of the true bills and no true bills accompanying this article shows.”

IN THE“BILL” COLUMN A “T” IS A “TRUE BILL” WHICH MEANS THE GRAND JURY INDICTED THE PERSON.  AN “N” TELLS THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO INDICT