Outlaw v. State

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, 'second offense. '

He contends that the trial- court erred in admitting in evidence the judgment of his conviction of the first offense. In this connection he first says that error was committed in permitting the record of his first conviction to be identified by a justice of the peace who succeeded the one who tried him, -the trial justice having died in the meantime and his term of office having thereby necessarily expired. The succeeding justice of the peace was the custodian of the record and was the proper witness…