Johnson v. State

Appellant was convicted of commission of a felony (robbery) while armed, and commission of a felony (sodomy) while armed, Ind. Code § 35-12-1-1, repealed October 1, 1977. He received concurrent sentences of determinate terms of imprisonment of ten and twenty years, respectively.

The issues raised on appeal 1 are as follows:(1) Whether the victim’s testimony identifying appellant as her attacker should have been excluded as the product of an unnecessarily suggestive pre-trial confrontation at which appellant was denied the assistance of counsel;(2) Whether a knife and several dollar bills…