Dawson v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant stands convicted of robbery, with a penitentiary sentence of thirty years.

The charge grew out of an armed holdup of one Buey Stokes on January 12, 1969, at his rural home in Lawrence County, Alabama.

Appellant’s first insistence is that Stokes’ in-court identification of defendant was the product of an illegal confrontation.

The testimony taken at the pretrial hearing of the circumstances surrounding Stokes’ identification of accused and of the confrontation is as follows:

Mr. Stokes testified that about ten o’clock of the Sunday morning in question three men…