Cameron v. State

This prosecution was begun in the county court, where the defendant was convicted, and from that judgment he took an appeal to the circuit court and perfected the appeal as is provided by section 3839 of the Code of 1923 (Mitchie’s 1928 Code, § 3839). On the trial, it was made to appear by evidence that the papers as transmitted to the clerk of the circuit court were lost or mislaid and could not be found. The court, upon proof being made of their contents, entered an order that the papers be substituted, arid upon the substituted papers the trial proceeded on the complaint as filed by the…