State v. Lewis

OPINION

DUNCAN, Judge.

The appellant-defendant, Elza Dean Lewis, was convicted of armed robbery and received a penitentiary sentence of twenty-eight (28) years.

The defendant contends that hearsay was erroneously admitted into evidence, insists that a requested instruction on identification was improperly denied, and says that the trial court erred in restricting his argument to the jury. We find no merit to these complaints.

On June 30, 1980, Gerald Sears was collecting accounts for his employer in a housing project when a black male, later identified as the defendant, approached Sears, pulled a…