Case ID: mich-app_11/html/0722-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. VANDERAH.
    1. Criminal Law—Drunk Driving—Blood Test—Admissibility.
    Results of blood test consented to by defendant charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor are admissible in evidence by statute (CLS 1961, § 257-.625; § 257.625a, as amended by PA 1964, No 104).
    References for Points in Headnotes
    [1] 7 Am Jur 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic § 332; 21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 365; 29 Am Jur 2d, Evidence §§ 370, 830.
    [2] 58 Am Jur, Witnesses §§ 674, 675, 767, 770, 774, 776, 781.
    [3] 7 Am Jur 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic § 330.
    
      2. Same — Evidence—Impeachment—Transcript—Authentication.
    Trial court ruling prohibiting defendant from impeaching a witness at his trial for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor by use of an unauthenticated transcript from another trial held, proper (CLS 1961, § 257-.625).
    3. Same — Past Driving Record — Intoxicating Liquor.
    Bringing out of defendant’s past driving record on cross-examination of him at his trial for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor held, proper (CLS 1961, § 257.625).
    Appeal from Wayne, Farmer (Charles S.), J.
    Submitted Division 1 June 6, 1968, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 4,070.)
    Decided June 24, 1968.
    Robert William Vanderah was convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Russell W. Schmidt, "Wayne City Attorney, for the people.
    
      David H. Fried and Martin S. Baum, for defendant.
   Per Curiam.

Defendant was convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. CLS 1961, § 257.625 (Stat Ann 1960 Rev § 9.2325). He contends that the results of a consented-to blood test were inadmissible over his objection; that the trial court improperly prohibited defendant from impeaching a witness by use of an unauthenticated transcript from another trial and that defendant’s prior driving record was erroneously brought out on his cross-examination.

CLS 1961, § 257.625a, as amended by PA 1964, No 104 (Stat Ann 1967 Cum Supp § 9.2325[1]) authorizes the admission in evidence of the results of such a test. The trial court’s rulings on the impeachment question and on defendant’s past driving record were proper.

Affirmed.

Quinn, P. J., and Fitzgerald and J. H, G-illis, JJ., concurred.