Henson v. State

HERRMANN, Chief Justice:

Defendant appeals his conviction for kidnapping, sodomy, and rape on the ground that the admission into evidence of a hospital record under 10 Del.C. § 4310 1 violated his right of confrontation guaranteed by Art. 1, Sec. 7 of the Delaware Constitution, Del.C.Ann., 2 and the Sixth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. 3

Defendant does not contend that the hospital record failed to meet the requirements for admissibility as a business record under 10 Del.C. § 4310. The single question before us concerns the admissibility of the hospital record under that Statute in this…