Harris v. . Singletary

The defendant contended that the court below erred in allowing the justice of the peace to testify that defendant swore out a warrant against the plaintiff for the larceny of a paper-writing purporting to be a letter. The justice of the peace who tried the ease testified that he had given the original warrant to the clerk of the Superior Court and without objection stated that the clerk said he did not know where it was; said it must have been destroyed as they moved to build a new courthouse, and that he could not locate it. That he had an exact copy on his docket. “It was my judgment on the…