People v. Burgess

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered April 28, 1977, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him thereunder, is unanimously affirmed. The only error claimed on appeal is that two police officers testified that the eyewitness victim had identified the defendant as the perpetrator of the robbery and that this constituted "bolstering” under the rule of People v Trowbridge (305 NY 471). The evidence and reference to it in the summation were not objected to. In any event, in our view, the error was harmless. *668The identification was…