State v. Wade

OPINION

REID, Chief Justice.

The issue for review is the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals, affirming the trial court, that in a probation revocation proceeding admission into evidence of a toxicology laboratory report, identified only by a probation officer who did not prepare the report, was not error. This Court reaches the contrary conclusion — that the admission of the report was error, and the revocation cannot be sustained on the record before the Court.

On defendant Wade’s plea of guilty to possession of a Schedule VI drug with intent to sell, he was sentenced to one year in the…