Harrington v. State

Citations

• 115 Miss. 205
• 76 So. 143

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Documentary evidence. Judicial records.</p> <p>Where on a trial in the circuit court for perjury the indictment alleged that the perjury, occurred in a trial of a civil case before a justice of the peace, it was reversible' error for the state to fail to introduce as evidence the record of the judgment of the justice of the peace showing the trial had in the justice court, since the trial of a civil case before a justice of the peace cannot be proven by oral testimony but must be shown by the official record of the judgment rendered in the trial in that court, if obtainable.</p>