Smith v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Charles T. Smith, was convicted of armed robbery, for which he received a sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment followed by 5 years’ probation. On appeal, the only enumerations of error concern the admissibility of evidence of a pre-trial photo identification and the in-court identification.

Around midnight on December 17, 1982, Dr. Hillary Harper, a criminal justice professor at Marshall State University in West Virginia, en route to Florida on vacation with a female traveling companion, Mandy Woodhouse, and a family dog, checked in at a motel in Macon. On…