30, 2010,
and notified the insurance company. He said that according to the insurance company’s
records, the Defendant filed a claim on September 1. He said that at the victim’s funeral on
September 5, the Defendant approached him and said he was glad Mr. Russell had come
because he did not know how to contact him and needed to speak with him about the
insurance. He said he gave the Defendant his business card but never heard from him. He
said the Defendant allowed his own policy to lapse at times beginning in December 2009.

       Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Special Agent Steve Scott testified as an
expert in firearms identification and analysis. He examined four projectiles and a shell
casing recovered from the scene and shell casings previously identifiedas having been
recovered from Mr. Walters’s Lawrence County property. He said the slugs were nine
millimeter, were made of an alloy of copper and steel, and had “nine left rifling.” He said
a copper and steel alloy was unusual in ammunition manufactured in United States and was
characteristic of Chinese and Russian ammunition. He said Hi-Point was the only weapons
manufacturer of which he was aware that made guns with nine left rifling. When shown the
photograph of a gun that had been previously identified as a photograph from Mr. Cotham’s
cell phone, he said the gun appeared to be a Hi-Point weapon and could be consistent with
the weapon that fired the bullets at the crime scene. He said that the photograph depicted a
magazine inside the gun and that the magazine contained a greenish