State v. Lane

Claudell Edwards and Jimmy Otis Lane were charged with two counts of robbery and one count of rape and convicted on each of the three counts. Both defendants appeal their convictions. They had been previously charged with robbery, assault, and rape but .that jury was unable to agree upon a verdict.

Lane and Edwards challenge the court’s failure to give the jury certain instructions relating to eyewitness' identification and its failure to declare a mistrial following an alleged improper comment of the prosecution in rebuttal argument. Edwards challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for his…