Appellant Jimmie Lee Jones was convicted of felony murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime in connection with the death of Robert Amos.1 After reviewing the errors raised on appeal, we affirm the judgment of conviction. 1. The State presented evidence that the victim and the defendant lived in the same rooming house in Fulton County, and that the victim died from a perforated brain injury after having been shot in the head. A .25-caliber metal-jacketed bullet was recovered from the victim’s body. Another occupant of the house testified he had given the victim a telephone message to call his mother and the victim had left the witness to do so. Moments later, the witness heard appellant walking up and down the hallway threatening to have the other tenants evicted and threatening to shoot them. The witness heard appellant announce he was going to call the landlord and heard him pick up the hall telephone receiver. The witness then heard the victim tell appellant he was on the phone. Using curse words, appellant ordered the victim to get off the phone and slammed the receiver down. The witness then heard the victim walk three steps out of his room, heard appellant say he was not afraid and he had two guns, heard a gunshot and a heavy object fall to the ground, and then heard the door leading to appellant’s room close. When the witness opened his room’s door to the hallway, he saw the victim lying in the hallway with a gunshot wound to his head. Police officers who responded to a report that a man had been shot at the residence found a .25-caliber pistol under the carpet on the interior side of the doorjamb to appellant’s room. A firearms examiner from the State Crime Lab testified the bullet removed from the victim had been fired by the gun found under the carpet. Tests run on swabbings of appellant’s hands revealed the presence of elements characteristic of gunshot residue. The evidence was sufficient to authorize a rational trier of fact to find appellant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of felony murderaggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U.S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979.
2. Appellant maintains the testimony concerning the discovery of gunshot residue on one of appellant’s hands should not have been admitted because the handwipings that revealed the presence of the residue were an unlawful search that violated the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. “Swabbing the hands of an accused to lift gunshot residue does not constitute an unconstitutional search or seizure; and testimony of an expert concerning the swabbing procedure, its physical results and his opinion based on those results does not violate the privilege of the accused against self-incrimination. Cits.” Strickland v. State , 247 Ga. 219 18 275 SE2d 29 1981. See also Lawler v. State , 276 Ga. 229 4e 576 SE2d 841 2003. Accordingly, appellant’s contention is without merit.
