People v. Perry

Opinion

EVANS, J.

Defendant Duane Van Perry appeals from a judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of first degree robbery (Pen. Code, § 211) with a prior felony conviction. His sole contention challenges the propriety of the trial court’s admission of opinion testimony that defendant was the man depicted on a motion picture film of the robbery.

On the day of the robbery, James Ting was working alone as a teller-cashier at the Sacramento Service and Development Corporation. Shortly after noon, a man approached the cashier’s window, held a gun on Ting, told him not to…