McClendon v. State

1. The testimony of an expert, as to his opinion as such, is admissible upon any matter, if the opinion given relates to scientific or technical knowledge. The weight of such testimony, and whether its application to the proved faets is illustrative of the particular transaction under investigation, is a question for the jury. There being an issue in this case as to whether the prosecuting witness could see his assailant under a culvert at the time of the assault, as he claimed to have done, and the condition of the culvert, so far as appears from the record, not having been changed up to the…