Buchanan v. Commonwealth

Ronald Lee Buchanan, defendant, was arraigned on November 1. 1968 on an indictment charging armed robbery. A jury was waived and trial by the court, on a plea of not guilty, was had on the same day. Defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of twenty years. To this judgment of conviction we granted defendant a writ of error.

The questions presented by the assignments of error all relate to the pre-indictment identification of defendant by the complaining witness, Stanley Ray Milton, in a line-up conducted by the police in the absence of…