Watts v. Clegg

The appeal is from a judgment against the appllant, in an action of damages for causing the appellee to be indicted for perjury.

On the trial, the plaintiff was permitted to introduce the original indictment against him for perjury, and to prove by the clerk that it was a record of his court. Without proof that the final record of that prosecution was made up, the original papers were admissible.—Buffington v. Cook, 39 Ala. 64; Calvert v. Marlowe, 18 Ala. 67; Barron v. Fort, 18 Ala. 668. In Carroll v. Pathkiller, (3 Porter, 279,) the *562clerk was not permitted to testify that a transcript which…