Owens v. State

Upon entering into the trial of this case in the circuit court, it was made known to the court that the original affidavit charging this defendant with the offense of bastardy, and the original warrant of arrest based thereon, had been lost, whereupon the court allowed the state to substitute those lost papers, and, upon the substituted papers aforesaid the trial of this case was had by complaint filed in the circuit court by the solicitor. In this there was no error, as all* courts have the inherent power, if original papers or records are lost or destroyed, to cause a substitution thereof,…