Webb v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for second degree murder arising out of a vehicular homicide in which six people were killed. He was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment.

The only issue on appeal is whether the prosecution laid a proper predicate for the admission into evidence of a chemical analysis of the defendant's blood for alcohol.

In this State, a statute authorizes the admission into evidence of the chemical analysis of a person's blood. Alabama Code Section 32-5-193 (a) 1975. However, before the test results are admissible, the specific requirements of the statute must be…