State v. Alexander

TATE, Justice.

The defendant Alexander was convicted of armed robbery, La.R.S. 14:64, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment at hard labor. His seven assignments of error on appeal present two principal issues: (1) the admissibility of his confession; and (2) the denial of a motion to suppress his identification by the victim of the robbery, as based upon allegedly unduly suggestive pretrial identification methods.

We find no factual merit to most of the contentions urged and see no need to detail the factual evidence with regard to them.1 However, an arguable issue is presented in…