State v. Willis

BILLINGS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant John Wilton Willis was convicted of rape and two counts of first degree robbery by a Greene County jury and sentenced by the court under the Second Offender Act, § 556.280, RSMo 1969. His only point in this appeal is that the in-court identification of him by his three victims was unconstitutionally tainted by a suggestive lineup conducted by the police in which he was identified as the perpetrator of the felonies. He argues that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to suppress identification testimony because the procedure at the pretrial…