Pilley v. State, 25 So.2d 57 (Ala. 1946)

“A witness for the State, C. D. Brooks, of the State Department of Toxicology, was properly qualified as an expert in the science of ballistics. He testified that he had made examinations of the bullet which had been removed from the body of the deceased and of the pistol which had been identified as having been in the possession of appellant a short time prior to the date of the homicide, and which had been admitted in evidence; that he had also made an examination of bullets which he had himself fired from the pistol, and had compared those bullets with the one which had been removed from the body of deceased. Further testifying, this witness said: That from the tests, comparisons and experiments that he had conducted he could not say that the bullet which had been removed from Goatley’s body was fired from the particular pistol alleged to have been used by appellant in the perpetration of the homicide, but that it could have been so fired; that it was fired from a gun of that type with similar rifling; that there was nothing to indicate, or that could tend to indicate, that it had not been fired from the particular pistol. In the introduction of this evidence there was no error. Vernon v. State, supra; Redus v. State, 243 Ala. 320, 9 So.2d 914.”