State v. Campbell

Lewis, Justice:

Appellant was convicted of armed robbery and received a sentence of twenty (20) years. He has appealed and the sole question presented is whether there was evidence to sustain the findings of the trial judge that the pretrial identification of the appellant by the prosecutrix was not so suggestive as to render her in-court identification of him inadmissible.

Prosecutrix was robbed while walking along a street in Greenville, South Carolina, about dawn, on March 30, 1974. She had ample opportunity to observe her assailant and immediately after the incident gave a description of…