People v. Thomas

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County, rendered February 22, 1972, convicting defendant, on his plea of guilty, of the crime of robbery in the first degree in violation of subdivision 2 of section 160.15 of the Penal Law. The issues before this court are whether the facts are sufficient to sustain a first degree robbery indictment and whether the trial court’s ruling permitting an in-court identification of *914the defendant based on the victim’s observations at the scene of the crime was erroneous in the light of its ruling that a show-up identification soon after the crime…