State v. Ward

The question presented by these appeals is whether certified copies of police logs showing calibration of intoxilyzer equipment are admissible against a defendant in a prosecution for violation of R.C. 4511.19. For the foregoing reasons, we hold that such copies are admissible despite the absence of the calibrating officer at trial.

Before this court’s adoption of the Ohio Rules of Evidence in July 1980, the question at bar was governed by R.C. 2317.42 and our decision in State v. Walker, supra.

“Official reports made by officers of this state, or certified copies of the same, on a matter…