Court Opinion

ID: 9720587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:36:58.139998+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:19.667776
License: Public Domain

Smith, J.,
concurring.
The rules of the Department of Health pertaining to breath analysis had been published October 17, 1961, were in force without amendment at the time of trial, and were readily available. Defendant fails to specify any defect in the foundational evidence other than absence of the rules from the record.
The rules; were legislative facts. See generally 1 Cooper, State Administrative Law, 175 (1965): 2 Davis, Administrative Law Treatise, § 15.03, p. 353 (1958); Proposed Rules of Evidence for the United States Courts and Magistrates, Revised Draft, Rule 201, Advisory Committee’s Note, subdivision (a), 51 F. R. D. 315, at p. 330. The district court may inform itself of legislative facts of agencies under the state Administrative procedures Act by any method it desires. A. *215party, of course, has a constitutional and statutory right to attack their validity. This court would be mistaken were it to cling to the sporting theory of justice while highway carnage goes on and on.