People v. Crawford

Defendant was convicted of six counts of armed robbery, MCL 750.529; MSA 28.797, by a Wayne County jury in August of 1976. He was subsequently sentenced to 43 years, 4 months to 65 years on each count. All the charges arose out of a holdup at Kindred’s Bar in the city of Dearborn.

All six people who were victims in the Kindred’s Bar robbery testified at trial. Some of these witnesses identified defendant as a participant in the robbery, others did not. In addition, the people called five witnesses under the similar acts statute, MCL 768.27; MSA 28.1050, who had been victims of a robbery at…