Salinas v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for the sale of heroin; the punishment, imprisonment for thirteen years.

The appellant urges that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence the results of the gas chromatography test performed upon State’s Exhibit 3 by Torraco, the chemist for the San Antonio Police Department. Torraco was qualified as an expert witness and testified that he used several procedures to determine that State’s Exhibit 3 was heroin. The analysis included the use of gas chromatography and thin layer chromatography. Since at the time of trial there was no objection…