Goudy v. State

Indictment for an assault and battery. Plea, not guilty. Judgment for the state.

The defendant, on the trial, offered in evidence a transcript from the record of a justice of the peace, showing a former conviction of the defendant for an assault and battery, alleged to be the same offence. The transcript was objected to as evidence, because it did not state that some person, present at the commission of the offence, was examined as a witness, or, &c., conformably to the statute. The Court sustained the objection; although the defendant offered, at the same time, to prove by oral testimony that…