State v. Stacy

PARKER, Judge.

Appellant assigns error to the action of the trial court in permitting the State’s witness, Best, to testify over defendant’s objection that in his opinion the contents of the bags wa's heroin. Prior to this the witness had testified without objection to his extensive academic and practical training in chemistry, including testimony that he had “run thousands of analyses on heroin.” This testimony furnished ample support for admission of the witness's opinion as an expert; “In the absence of a request by the appellant for a finding by the trial court as to the qualification of a…