SALINAS v. STATE

No. 47970.

507 S.W.2d 730 (1974)

Oscar SALINAS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne I. Fagan (Court appointed), San Antonio, for appellant.

Ted Butler, Dist. Atty., Gus Wilcox and David Chapman, Asst. Dist. Attys., San Antonio, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the 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...

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