手机短信应作为独立证据种类予以确认

手机短信已成为人们日常信息沟通的重要方式，手机短信的证据问题也随之进入证据法学的研究领域。在司法实践中，现有的证据种类无法容纳手机短信独有的特性，因而应将其作为独立的证据种类即电子证据予以确认。这是法学理论的内在需求，也是司法实践的迫切需求，更是社会发展及立法的大势所趋。

Handset Short Messagines Should Be Affirmed as an Independent Evidence Category

As handset short messagines have become an important way for people to communicate with each other, it has become a field studied by evidence law scholars whether these messagines can be used as evidences. As it is difficult for existing evidence categories to reflect the features of the messagines, these messagines can be affirmed as an independent evidence category-electronic evidence. That is the intrinsic requirement of law theory, the urgent need in judicial practice and an irresistible trend.