State v. Carey

COPELAND, Justice.

Defendant first assigns error to the action of the trial court in ruling that the State’s witness, B. J. Sloan, was an expert in the field of firearms identification, and in permitting the witness to testify that based on his examination of the four lead pellets removed from the body of James D. Sloop, Sr., he concluded that they were No. 6 buckshot. Defendant argues that since the witness was tendered as an expert in the field of “firearms identification,” he was not qualified to testify in the field of ballistics. This assignment is without merit.

The qualification of an…