Anglin v. State

1. One of the grounds of the motion for a new trial was that the court erred in admitting in evidence, over the objection of the defendant, an extract from the minutes of the superior court of Newton county, setting out a judgment of that court, sentencing John Hutchens to the penitentiary upon a conviction of burglary, which was duly certified by the clerk of the court; the objection made being that a certified copy of the original sentence was the only proper way to prove it. The certified extract from the minutes was the legal and proper way by which the conviction and sentence should have…