Benjamin A. Hilliard v. United States

DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Hilliard was convicted of robbery after a trial in which the matter of identification became critical. It developed that, one of the Government’s chief witnesses-had furnished to the police a description of the robber. She testified on cross examination that she had told the investigating police “exactly” what she had said in court. She said that she had given, the officers a statement.

A detective testified that the chief complaining witness had picked the appellant from a line-up, which had been-conducted by him. It developed that he had not taken the statement from…