State v. May

FINCH, Alternate Judge.

This case arises out of a robbery of the Holiday Inn at Joplin, Missouri. The jury found defendant guilty of robbery in the first degree but could not agree on punishment. The trial court sentenced defendant to a term of seven years in the custody of the Department of Corrections.

The principal issues raised on this appeal are (1) that, the court should have excluded the in-court identification by the robbery victim (Carver) on the ground that the exhibition of certain photographs to him by the police was so impermissibly suggestive as to taint all subsequent…