Winemiller v. Thrash

— The appellant appeals from a judgment awarding the appellee damages for a malicious prosecution.

The trial court permitted the appellee to read in evidence the indictment which it was alleged the appellant had procured against him, together with the endorsements upon it. In this there was no error. It has often been decided that *354a record is an entirety, and as such is admissible. Papers forming a part of the record are, under the general and familiar rule, competent and proper instruments of evidence. This is especially true where, as here, the papers are prepared and filed by public…