Chambers v. State
Decision Date | 13 December 1989 |
Docket Number | No. 71A03-8903-CR-73,71A03-8903-CR-73 |
Citation | 547 N.E.2d 301 |
Parties | Willie C. CHAMBERS, Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Plaintiff-Appellee. |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
Kenneth M. Hays, South Bend, for defendant-appellant.
Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen. of Indiana, Jane A. Morrison, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for plaintiff-appellee.
Defendant-appellant Willie C. Chambers appeals from a judgment of conviction for operating a motor vehicle while suspended as an habitual violator of traffic laws, a Class D felony. Chambers raises the following issues for appellate review:
(1) whether the trial court erred by admitting into evidence State's Exhibit No. 2, a two-part exhibit with a certification page attached; and
(2) whether the evidence was sufficient to show that the Bureau of Motor Vehicles mailed a notice of suspension to Chambers.
The trial court admitted into evidence State's Exhibit No. 2, consisting of a computer printout of Chambers' driving record and a copy of a letter addressed to Chambers from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles advising him of the suspension of his driving privileges. Chambers' objection at trial and on appeal concerns the final entry on his driving record:
Chambers maintains that the entry was not a part of his driving record as that record appears in the files of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, because the entry was printed in a different typeface and because its placement on the record deviated from the chronological order in which the other entries were made.
The trial court erred in overruling Chambers' objection to State's Exhibit No. 2. The typewritten notation added at the end of the computer generated driving record constituted inadmissible hearsay.
In Kinkade v. State (1989), Ind.App., 537 N.E.2d 541, this Court addressed the admissibility of a driving record which includes a notation regarding the mailing of an Habitual Traffic Violator Notice of Suspension. The business record exception to the hearsay rule does not offer a basis for admitting such an exhibit:
[Citations omitted.]
Likewise, the official record exception to the hearsay rule is not sufficiently broad to encompass a typewritten addendum concerning the mailing of notice of suspension. Id. at 543. Because State's...
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