State v. Williams

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his convictions of first degree robbery and armed criminal action and the resulting thirty year concurrent sentences as a prior and persistent offender. We affirm.

Defendant, armed with a handgun, accosted the elderly victim on the parking lot of a National food store and stole her purse. He was identified at trial by the victim and a bystander who attempted to stop defendant as he was fleeing.

Defendant first challenges the identification by the victim on the basis that it was the product of an impermissible suggestion by the police. The…