State v. Hill

MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant first contends the court erred in permitting the county medical examiner to testify concerning the cause of the decedent’s death. He argues that the doctor presented by the State was not qualified to state his opinion as to the cause of death because he was not found to be an expert, he did not *263personally perform the autopsy on the victim in order to obtain personal knowledge, and he was not asked a proper hypothetical question.

The qualification of an expert is normally addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge and

“‘[t]he court’s findings that a witness is…