Osburn v. State
Ohio Supreme Court
This cause was adjourned from the county of Clermont; It was a writ of error brought to reverse a judgment in a prosecution for perjury, in which the plaintiff in error was convicted and sent to the penitentiary; The case was presented to the court upon four bills of exeeptions, taken in the progress of the trial before the common pleas.
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This cause was adjourned from the county of Clermont; It was a writ of error brought to reverse a judgment in a prosecution for perjury, in which the plaintiff in error was convicted and sent to the penitentiary; The case was presented to the court upon four bills of exeeptions, taken in the progress of the trial before the common pleas. The indictment set forth that, at a previous term, Osburn bad been examined as a witness, between the state and one W. Aekles, tried also upon an indictment for perjury ; that upon that trial it became a material inquiry whether Osburn was ata certain…
1Opinion of the Court
.Judge Wood
delivered the opinion of the court:
The original records of a court are always evidence, where a copy of them duly certified would be evidence. The exemplification, under the seal of the court, is only made evidence, because the originals must be kept at a particular place, for the use and benefit ■of the public, to whom they belong.
It was of no importance, whether the record of the prosecution .against Ackles was signed by the president judge or not. That *216signature adds no validity to the record. It is required to be made, that the court shall be compelled, to see that the clerk…
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