Mr. Day. Right side.
Mr. Belin. Do you know what the results of the paraffin tests were?
Mr. Day. The test on the face was negative.
Mr. Belin. Had you ever done a paraffin test on a face before?
Mr. Day. No; actually—had it not been for the particular type of case and this particular situation here—we would not have at this time. It was just something that was done to actually keep from someone saying later on, "Why didn't you do it?"
Actually, in my experience there, shooting a rifle with a telescopic sight there would be no chance for nitrates to get way back or on the side of the face from a rifle.
Mr. Belin. Well, the chamber, the nature of the chamber of the rifle, would that have anything to do with that?
Mr. Day. Yes, sir.
Mr. Belin. In what way?
Mr. Day. A rifle such as that one we are talking about here from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, in my opinion, would not throw nitrates back to where a man's face was when he is looking through a telescopic sight.