Whitfield v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Whitfield was tried and convicted by a jury of robbery and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. He appeals asserting that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence the results of a photographic lineup because the lineup was “suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification.”

The witness who made the pretrial identification selected Whit*477field’s photo out of a series of four to seven photos which had been placed in a row atop a desk. The photos were all of black men of approximately the same size and age.

Whitfield contends that the lineup was suggestive…