Title: Grand jurors orientation documents

Identifier: 0625-s1-b1-fd   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/62690)

Description: Handwritten instructions for grand jury members including a list of offenses grand jurors must consider likely created during the 1850s. The offenses are separated by county and state statutes and include everything from assault and battery to teaching the enslaved to read and write. The instructions were likely authored by Edward C. Yellowley (1821-1885), a Greenville, N.C. lawyer when he was either clerk of the Superior Court or solicitor of the county court. Holographs.