Watson v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Chief Justice.

Ronald Lee Watson was convicted of armed robbery and was sentenced to serve 21 years in prison. He urges that the court erred with the reference to in-court identification by the victims, in failing to defer trial until he had been afforded a preliminary hearing, and in refusing to separate the witnesses who had testified from those who had not.

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hendrix and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. McKinley were robbed in their motel room in Lexington on the night of December 29, 1967. About $1,000 in *554cash and travelers’ checks were taken. Both couples were tied and…