Arthur A. Williams v. United States

This appeal from a conviction for robbery presents a due process issue deriving from a pretrial identification in 1966. 1 Since the trial occurred prior to the decision in Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293, 87 S.Ct. 1967, 18 L.Ed.2d 1199 (1967), that issue as such was not raised in the trial court. There was, however, extensive testimony relating to the conditions under which the eyewitnesses observed the perpetration of the crime, and to the intervening events prior to the in-court identifications made by both such witnesses. The facts with respect to police-station identification efforts were…