People v. Curtis Williams

Defendant-appellant, Curtis Williams, Jr., was found guilty by jury verdict of assault with intent to rob while armed, MCLA 750.89; MSA 28.284, on June 22, 1973. He was sentenced on August 1, 1973, to a term of from 4 to 20 years’ imprisonment and appeals by right.

Williams first challenges the identification procedures employed by the police officers in their quest to determine the identity of the alleged assailant. He insists that the on-the-scene corporeal identifications of Williams made by the victim, Carolyne Landrith, and an eyewitness, Samuel Hayes, were constitutionally infirm, both…