Commonwealth v. Becker

Citations

• 14 Pa. Super. 430
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 63

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Practice, Q. 8. — Jurisdiction, Q. 8. — Substitution of copy for lost indictment.</p> <p>A court having jurisdiction of the cause has power to supply the place of a lost, mislaid, destroyed or stolen indictment by a properly proved copy.</p> <p>Record — Presumption of regularity.</p> <p>A court having power to substitute a copy for a lost bill of indictment its action will not be disturbed where the presumption from the record is that the court proceeded regularly, not arbitrarily, and that these facts expressed in the order, namely, that the original was lost or mislaid and that this was a copy, were established by proper and sufficient proof.</p>