Whitt v. State

Bernard Whitt was convicted of commission of a felony while armed, to-wit: robbery, in violation of Ind. Code § 35-12-1-1 (Burns 1975), and sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment. On appeal he argues that the trial court erred in failing to suppress the identification testimony of three witnesses.

On the night of November 22,1974, two men entered Sam’s Liquor Store in Indianapolis. One carried a sawed-off shotgun, the other a revolver. These men ordered the two store employees, George Duerson and Richard Hunter, and a friend of the employees, Jessie Dawkins, to lie on the floor, and took a…