State v. Ward
This text of 9 Tex. 370 (State v. Ward) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Texas Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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original, would unquestionably be plimary evidence. As between the teatiatonio and land office copy, the former, on general principles, would be the l,~st evi- dence. The latter would be but secondary;
and in order to its admission it would be necessary for the party offering it to coconut for the non-production of the icslimonio. But sinco the statute lies elevated the land-office copy to the same grade as the original, it is no longer seCondaly but is primary evidence, and consequently is admissible
without producing or
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