Best Evidence

Primary evidence, as distinguished from secondary; original, a3 distinguished from substitutionary; the best and highest evidence of which the nature of the case is susceptible. A written tnstrument is itself always regarded as the primary or best possible evidence of its existence and contents; a copy, or the recollection of a witness, would be secondary evi-; jence. of nature by man or woman in any manner with a beast.

Code Ga, 1882, § 4354.

Wo take it that there is a differeuce in signification between the terms “bestiality,” and the “crime against nature.” Bestiality is a connec tion between a human being and a brute of the op posite sex. Sodomy isa connection between two human beings of the same sex,—the male,—named from the prevalence of the sinin Sodom. Both may be embraced by the term “crime againat nat ure,” as felony embraces murder, larceny, etc., though we think that term is more generally used in reference to sodomy. Buggery seems to inelude both sodomy and bestiality.

10 Ind. 356.