People v. Odom

Defendant, Henry Odom, was convicted in a trial by jury of rape and burglary and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five to fifty years.

Defendant urges, among other things, that the lineup procedure by which he was identified was so conducive to irreparable misidentification as to deny him due process of law and that the uncorroborated testimony of the complaining witness is not of the affirmative character required by law and is insufficient to support the conviction in light of defendant’s alibi testimony.

The complaining witness, Mrs. Marcia Buff, 25, testified at trial that…