State v. Dancy

WEIER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree and sentenced under the Second Offender Act, § 556.280, RSMo 1969, to twenty-five years in the custody of the Department of Corrections. Defendant’s appeal is based upon two contentions. First, he asserts that the trial court improperly allowed in-court identification and testimony concerning pre-trial confrontations by two witnesses because of the substantial likelihood that there was misidentification due to the unnecessarily suggestive nature of the confrontations. Second, defendant asserts that the testimony…