McPherson v. State

Kirby, J.,

(after stating the facts). It is uniformly held that a court of record may correct mistakes in its record which did not arise from the judicial acts of the court but from the mistakes of its recording officers. Smith v. Wallis-McKinney Coal Co., 140 Ark. 218, 215 S. W. 385. It is also thoroughly settled that it is within the court’s discretion to enter a nunc pro tunc order correcting the record at a subsequent term in criminal as well as civil cases. Richardson v. State, 169 Ark. 167, 273 S. W. 367; Goddard v. State, 78 Ark. 226, 95 S. W. 476; Bowman v. State, 93 Ark. 168, 129 S.…