State v. Hughes

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

We granted the State’s Rule 11 application in this case to consider whether T.C.A. § 55-10-410(d) violates the constitutional right of confrontation and to resolve any conflict between this Court’s decisions in State v. Robbins, 512 S.W.2d 265 (Tenn.1974) and State v. Henderson, 554 S.W.2d 117 (Tenn.1977).

Defendant was convicted in the trial court of driving while intoxicated. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction and remanded for a new trial. The intermediate court held that the trial court's admission of the report of laboratory test results through the…