State v. Paul

OPINION

DEE C. BLYTHE, District Judge.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of armed robbery, raising questions concerning line-up identification, sufficiency of the evidence to support the grand jury indictment, and admission of evidence of “casing” of the store which later was robbed. We affirm.

Despite the line-up identification issue, the defendant was convicted wholly on circumstantial evidence. None of the eyewitnesses to the crime was able to identify him as being one of the three robbers, although his physical characteristics were similar to those of a masked gunman they did…