State v. Sibert

CROCKETT, Justice.

Frederick Ray Sibert appeals from conviction of robbery. The principal errors assigned relate to the admission of the testimony and penciled notes of the investigating officer.

The robbery was committed upon Lyle Thomas Butters at his service station in Salt Lake City on the evening of January 21, 1956. At the trial Butters related the details of the robbery and identified the defendant whom he had previously picked out in a “line-up” at the police station. Upon icross-examination he was confronted with a claimed inconsistency in his testimony that at the preliminary hearing…