The grand jury cannot too strongly cen-…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

The grand jury cannot too strongly cen- sure the board of commissioners of the county for their failure to take ordinary business pre- cautions for the protection of the interests of the people intrusted to them. Mr. Carpenter, the present chairman of the board, acknowl- edged that he signed warrants in blank after the stubs had been filed by the clerk, and trusted Mr. Morehead to fill out the warrants correspondingly therewith. This, he states, he did to close up the business of the meeting of the board, in order that he might sooner return to his home, and because of his implicit confi- dence in the integrity of Mr. Morehead. He never checked up the warrants cancelled with