Synoground v. State

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of attempted burglary on jury trial. His several points for reversal are combined under two arguments: that circumstances surrounding appellant’s pretrial identification by a witness for the state were so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification and that evidence of other crimes was improperly admitted.

The pretrial identification was made by James Uselton. Evidence submitted at a pretrial hearing on appellant’s motion to suppress the identification revealed:

On August 19, 1975, in…