State v. Watts

BRANCH, Justice.

The trial judge’s ruling does not question the admissibility into evidence of properly authenticated public records of the Division of Motor Vehicles, the certifying officer’s authority as the then current keeper of the records of the Department of the Division, or the genuineness of the Departmental seal which was affixed to the respective records. The narrow question here presented is whether the trial judge correctly dismissed each case and taxed the Motor Vehicles Department with the costs of each case because “the name ‘J. T. Baker, Jr.’ which appears under a…