People v. Wallace

Defendant, Ozzie Wallace, was charged by indictment with armed robbery. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 18 — 2(a).) Following a joint bench trial with codefendant Dwayne King, he was found guilty and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Codefendant King was acquitted. On appeal, Wallace contends that (1) the trial court erred in permitting the indictment to be amended on the second day of trial; (2) the trial judge should have stricken the in-court identification of him by an occurrence witness because the identification procedure used was unreasonably suggestive; (3) the trial court…