Hoskins v. State

Appellant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with the offense of selling intoxicating liqnors.

It appears that the transcript of the stenographer’s notes filed with the clerk of the circuit court makes the witnesses call the defendant “John Hardkins,” and the transcript as originally filed in this court is to the same effect. It seems, further, that the court stenographer (acting under the orders of the judge, as he states) corrected the transcript here, so as to make same conform to the facts, by writing “John Hoskins” wherever the name of “John Hardkins” appeared.

It was improper…