Poole v. Commonwealth

William Poole, II, the defendant, was convicted by a jury of armed robbery, and his punishment was fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary. To the final judgment approving the jury’s verdict and imposing the sentence, the defendant was granted a writ of error. He challenges the legality of identification evidence presented by the Commonwealth and attacks the action of the trial court in refusing a defense instruction.

The evidence before the jury showed that at 3:10 a.m. on April 18, 1968, Otto C. Ford was operating a Virginia Transit Company bus in the city of Richmond. He stopped the bus…