Phillips v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for robbery in the first degree. Sentence was twenty-one years' imprisonment.

I

The defendant argues that the pretrial identification procedure was unduly suggestive and unreliable and, therefore, inadmissible at trial. After the defendant had been arrested for the robbery of Coggins Jewelry, William T. Coggins, the owner and operator of the store, identified the defendant's photograph from a police "mug book" as one of the men who had robbed him. The mug book contained thirty to forty pictures. The test for determining the reliability of identification…