Case ID: rob_4/html/0390-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bullard, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

R. Lafonta v. William McAllister and others.
    A certificate from the Judge of an inferior court, from which an appeal has been taken, will be received at anytime to show error in the original certificate appended by him to the transcript of the record ; and, on a proper showing, the clerk of the lower court may also be allowed to amend his certificate.
    Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J.
    T. Slidell, for the plaintiff.
    
      L. C. Duncan, for the appellants.
   Bullard, J.

The transcript in this case originally contained a certificate of the Clerk, and another of the Judge, that it contained all the evidence adduced on the trial below. It is now certified both by the Judge, and the Clerk, that this was erroneous ; that in fact a witness was examined, whose testimony was not reduced to writing. The only difficulty is in determining, whether these counter-certificates ought to bereceived. Withrespect to the Judge, we cannot doubt the propriety of taking his statement at any time, that his first certificate was given in error; we have on some occasions permitted the Clerk to amend his certificate ; and that is the most regular way of proceeding. If this loose practice of giving false certificates is persisted in, we shall be compelled, ex officio, to exercise the powers vested in us, in relation to Clerks, who show themselves so regardless of the rights of parties, and whose blunders lead the Judges into error.

Appeal dismissed.