Opinion ID: 344225
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Heading: (Appellant) Half gallon and the last one was a half gallon.

Text: 64 Q. Were all of you drinking from it? 65 A. Yes, sir. 66 Q. How much did you have to drink? 67 A. Not enough to get drunk. 68 Q. You were not drunk at the time? 69 A. No, sir. 70 Q. You really knew what you were doing at that time? 71 A. Yes, sir. 72 Record, vol. IV, at 481. Furthermore, even if the admission of the pathologist's testimony constituted error, it was at most a mere trial error which is not reviewable by way of federal habeas corpus. Pierce v. Page, 362 F.2d 534 (10th Cir. 1966) (per curiam). The rule is well established that state court rulings on the admissibility of evidence may not be questioned in a federal habeas corpus proceeding, unless they render the trial so fundamentally unfair as to constitute a denial of federal constitutional rights. E. g., Bell v. Arn, 536 F.2d 123, 125 (6th Cir. 1976); Schleicher v. Wyrick, 529 F.2d 906, 911 (8th Cir. 1975); Sherrill v. Wyrick, 524 F.2d 186, 190 (8th Cir. 1975), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 923, 96 S.Ct. 1134, 47 L.Ed.2d 332 (1976); Alexander v. Daugherty, 286 F.2d 645 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 366 U.S. 939, 81 S.Ct. 1666, 6 L.Ed.2d 849 (1961); Schechter v. Waters, 199 F.2d 318 (10th Cir. 1952); cf. Carrillo v. United States, 332 F.2d 202 (10th Cir. 1964). Appellant was not deprived of any constitutional right by reason of the admission into evidence of the pathologist's testimony. 73