Rule 13.2 - Instructions, Duties, and Powers of Grand Jury(a)Charge to the Grand Jury.(1) By Whom. Only the circuit judge may deliver the charge to the grand jury, except that the circuit clerk or deputy court clerk may read the charge as proposed by the circuit judge when the judge shall be unable to deliver the charge by reason of physical infirmity.(2) Charge. The circuit judge shall charge the grand jury according to the matters required by law as the judge deems fit and proper. A sample charge which may be used is attached as an Appendix to these Rules.(b)Examination of County Records. The grand jury shall have free access at all proper hours to the papers, records, accounts and books of all county officers for all examinations which it may see fit to make, and may make report to the court in relation thereto.Comment
Rule 13.2(a) is largely derived from former Rule 7.01 of the Uniform Rules of Circuit and County Court. Rule 13.2(b) incorporates the provisions of Mississippi Code Section 13-5-57. See also Entergy Mississippi, Inc. v. State, 132 So. 3d 568, 572 (Miss. 2014) (quoting Ex parte Jones County Grand Jury, First Judicial Dist., 705 So. 2d 1308, 1315 (Miss. 1997)) ("Grand juries have 'broad investigative power and wide latitude in conducting an investigation'").