Stewogbaphek

A short-hand ■writer or reporter who officially takes down testimony, and the rulings and charge in a case on trial. ' 2 Bl. Com. 160. = Bunnell v. Fiske, 11 Meto. 554-65 (1846). See Alexander V. State, 12 Tex. 540 (1854); 1 Sprague, 196; 8 F. E. 24T-49; 10 Oreg. 366. = 4 Bl. Com. 132. * Taliaferro v. Commonwealth, 77 Va. 413 (1883), cases; Jenkins v. State, 62 Wis. 49 (1885); 2 Whart. Cr. Law, % 1605. ' Simpson v. St. John, 93 N. T. S His transcript of evidence is admissible when he testifies that he took the testimony in shorthand, that the transcript is correct, and exhibits all the testimony received. A deposition should be read to and signed by the witness, after being written out in long-hand.i The official stenographic notes that, by direction of a statute, are the " best authority in any matter of dispute," are the notes made up under the eye and with the approval of the court.^ In Pennsylvania, also, his note of a bill of exceptions taken to the admission or rejection of testimony is sufficient, without the bill being actually sealed by the judge.' But a county is not liable for a transcript of his notes, unless made by order of court, or filed in performance of his general duty.* His notes are still " in writing " although not transcribed. Where a record was incomplete for want of transcription not attributable to the plaintiff in error, the case was remanded for a new trial.* A transcribed report cannot be used to contradict the witness on a subsequent trial, the legislature not having made the report evidence for any purpose." But a transcript may be used on the hearing of a bill in equity for a new trial in a suit at law, the stenographer testifying to the correctness of the copy, that the witnesses were sworn, etc' His minutes of the testimony given on a former trial by a witness who has left the jurisdiction are admissible.^ But, before such testimony can be used in a later trial, the examination must have been completed, and the stenographer must testify to the accuracy of his report.^ Where a stenographer was employed by the master in a case to take testimony at the accounting before him, the expense was not allowed as costs, the parties not having agreed thereto."*