Magee v. State

OPINION

BROWN, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a conviction for the offense of sale of a narcotic drug, to-wit: heroin; the punishment assessed by the jury is confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for five years.

Appellant does not contest the sufficiency of the evidence, but urges five grounds of error.

In his first ground of error appellant contends the trial court erred in permitting Frank Shiller, the Director of the Criminalistic’s Laboratory in Fort Worth, to testify that an injection of 0.22 grams of 80% heroin would be fatal over an objection that such testimony was…