Court Opinion

ID: 9765808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:20:27.421437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:15.888920
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
MORRISON, Judge.
On motion for rehearing the appellant contends that the trial court was in error in permitting the witness Tyler, the medical records clerk of Ben Taub Hospital, who was shown to have the care, custody and control of the official hospital records, to read from such records statements relating the injuries suffered by the complaining witness Ruby Lee Jackson. Appellant obj ected on the ground that proper predicate had not been laid.
It was shown by witness Tyler’s testimony that the records were made in the regular course of business and were made at or near the time the matters contained therein occurred. The foregoing would constitute sufficient predicate to authorize the introduction of the records into evi*742dence. Art. 3737e, Sec. 1 and 2, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St.
Although the records themselves may have been the best evidence, in the absence of such an objection, it was not reversible error to allow the medical records clerk to read therefrom the factual description of the injuries sustained by Ruby Lee Jackson.
Remaining convinced that our original opinion properly disposed of the case, appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.