In re Kevin G.

The issue of law in the instant juvenile delinquency proceeding is the admissibility at trial of a report on heroin content of a seized substance, certified by a chemist of the police department’s crime laboratory, without the testimony iof such chemist. This question, which must be determined herein on the same basis as in a criminal prosecution, does not appear to have received a definitive answer in the courts of this State.1

*518The juvenile delinquency petition against the 15-year-old respondent herein charged that he “ handed ” a glassine envelope containing heroin to another juvenile; that…