People v. Gauer

The only question presented here is whether the State laid a proper foundation for the admissibility, as records in the ordinary course of business, of telephone company records on “IBM Trouble Recorder Cards” of telephone calls from defendant’s telephone to those of the complaining witnesses. Defendant, who with his wife, was an employee of Illinois Bell Telephone Company (“Illinois Bell”) was convicted in a bench trial of disorderly conduct in violation of section 26 — 1 (a) (2) of the Criminal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, sec. 26 — 1 (a) (2) ), and fined $100. He was charged with…