Alabama's best evidence rule continues applicable to writings only. Adoption of this rule is a rejection of the corresponding federal rule, which expands the best evidence principle to cover recordings and photographs.
Chattels generally remain outside the scope of the best evidence principle.
Tape recordings, for example, present no best evidence issue. 12 Ala. App. Even if an inscribed chattel were held to be within the best evidence requirements, it could yet be admissible as within some exception to the best evidence rule. See, e.g., Ala. R. Evid. Compare Ala. R. Evid.