Unless an order appears on the demurrers, whether entered originally or nunc pro tunc, it must be assumed that none has been entered. Rutherford v. Crawford, 53 Ga. 138 (3); Armstrong v. Lewis, 61 Ga. 680. Therefore, the controlling question here is whether or not any of the defendant's demurrers were meritorious.
This requirement as to the medium of proof corresponds with the general rule of law, that the proceedings of a court of record are known only by means of the record itself. Collins v. Bullard, 57 Ga. 333; Rutherford v. Crawford, 53 Ga. 139; James v. Kerby, 29 Ga. 684. * * * "The stenographer's evidence was all appropriate to open the way to the introduction of the evidence given by Heflin on the trial of Eddleman, and for that purpose it was all admissible; but in order to show the actual existence of the case of State v. Eddleman as a judicial proceeding in the superior court of Fulton county, and its identity with the case described in the bill of indictment, it was necessary to go further and prove by the record an indictment against Eddleman (for he could not have been legally tried without an indictment), and that there was an issue raised upon that indictment, and what that issue was.