This acknowledges recei

date whioh rsada:

county Attorney- -i&act to be wher, inveetiga- 1 violations or quallfled for the oath of investigating wltmo~~ 5. code of Crlalnal Prooedure, 8hte8 thet and juror's oath la that *the Stete'a ooun- owe* and your own, you shall keep eecret.m for the l ppolntment 367b, C. C. P., whioh provides of grand Jury bailiris, m&es a portion or said balliff'e oath thet 'you will keep eooret,the prooeedlngs of the grand jury.* *2 iionortible 3. ‘i’owneand, pa,:e 2 336, c. c. E., provides for the oath TV be takeu by Art.

B wituese VW testifies before a grand jury. h portion of said oath la that *you will keep eeoret of the greud all yrooeodlnge jury.”

Art. 375, C. C. P., provides that “the attorney repressnt- lng the State may go befom the grend jury at any time exoept when Xhoy are dlnouoalng the propriety of finding an lndlot- nbmnt or voting upon the B(UPB.~

In view of the preoedlng statutes pertalnlng to the aeorsoy of grand jurs prooeedlngs, and In view of the statute apeolfioallg .authorltiing the appearanoe befor@ grand jury or the attorney mpreaontlng ~tha State, it would seein that a apeoiflo le&slatlve authorlsatian would be neoemury to allow the Xetrlot and County At~rne&Gtoot, aa auoh, to attend eeaaionr of a grand jury. Slnoe we find no law authorizing their preaenoe et eaid weeions, we oonolude that said attorney8 am unauthorized pelraona at thoee aeaalona.

Although we find no !l’exaa oaaea In point, in i’eople V. Lunson, 150 M. 6. 280, the Supremo Court of Illlnole aaid:

*It ie a rundaaectal element of a grand jury lmea- To thie end the law refuses -A grand jury Is organlsed for the purpose or pro- teoting oltisenr from unfounded aocuaation es well aa ehugom of ori~ returning lnveafigating lndlot- By mawn or the faot that the purpow -AtO thema. of au& pra#eotlan may be largely forfeited where the lnverfigafiona of the grand jury beooma known, the work of that body ia surrounded by eecreoy and Vb8Wd Out of thaeo vtewr hae ariaen the with wlamnlty.

rule that unauthofiierd Deraono mey not be allowed to attend upon their lnve8tlgatlona.~ Iemphdsfi added) In View of the toregoing it i# the oplnlon of thim department that the pra8enoe of the Dlatrlot and County Attornep8-ileot, aa

311 J . ,i'ownsond, pace 3 Louorobla

euch, in rr grand jury eeesion, wherein lnvestiC;~tions of ori~- ill vlolatione am belnb zwde, is unauthorized ehould not be permitted.

lit, trust that the foregoing fully anewera your questIon.

Youre vary truly, William ii. Stepp Aaaietant