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PEOPLE v. KIRTDOLL

No. 16 November Term 1973, Docket No. 54,569.

391 Mich. 370 (1974)

217 N.W.2d 37

PEOPLE v. KIRTDOLL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 16, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Robert A. Reuther, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Sidney Kraizman, for defendant on appeal.

WILLIAMS, J.

Whether the Michigan business entry statute1 authorizes the admission into evidence of a hospital record in a criminal trial is the jurisprudentially significant issue in this case. The issue was first raised almost 35 years ago by this Court in People v Lewis, 294 Mich. 684; 293 NW 907 (1940). There we held that admission of such records in a criminal case "without calling the maker thereof" would deny the accused...

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