Referred to only as "the Court" in "Monk," the Jefferson judge who presides over Monk's murder trial plays a significant role in determining its outcome (41): he appoints the lawyer who does such a perfunctory job defending Monk; he may even have directed the lawyer to plead Monk "guilty" (42).
Monk tries to "make a speech" before several unnamed and undescribed prisoners when he first arrives at the county jail (42). Typically in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, the men who are jailed together are black, but in this case we can't determine the race of these "other prisoners" (42).
The grandfather of the man who is the Governor of the state in "Monk" seems to have been a man of the lower classes with a chip on his shoulder similar to the one Bill Terrel carries. As the Governor says of him to Gavin Stevens, "Mr. Stevens, you are what my grandpap would have called a gentleman. He would have snarled it at you, hating you and your kind; he might very probably have shot your horse from under you someday from behind a fence - for a principle" (57).
The narrator of "Monk" points out that given his rural background, Monk would have seen "the cotton and the corn in the fields, and men working it" - although that doesn't solve the mystery of Monk's last words (52).
In The Mansion the member of Goodyhay's sect who gives Mink a ride into Memphis (and whom the narrative only refers to as "the driver," and does not describe at all, 312) knows his way around the city.
This "pickup truck" driver (285) in The Mansion gives Mink a ride from outside Parchman to Clarksdale. He is angry that "they" didn't let "us" defeat Russia as well as Germany and Japan during the Second World War (119).
In both the short story "Go Down, Moses" and the novel of the same name, this driver is hired by Gavin Stevens to carry Belle Worsham and Molly Beauchamp in Stevens' car from the train station to the McCaslin plantation.
After Fraser dies in "Monk," this unnamed man driving "the truck or the car" sees Monk and says, "All right, Monk. Jump in" (45). He takes Monk to a gas station two or three miles from Jefferson.
In "Tomorrow," the District Attorney of Yoknapatawpha apparently feels so certain that Bookwright will be found not guilty that he "conducts the case through an assistant" (91), and does not otherwise appear in the story.
