People v. Cooper

Oscar Cooper and Ernest Lee Wiley were indicted for the crime of robbery. Wiley pleaded guilty and was placed on probation; Cooper pleaded not guilty, waived a jury trial, was found guilty and sentenced to from one to eight years in the penitentiary.

This appeal is by Cooper only. He seeks a reversal of his conviction on the sole basis that his identification was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

On June 2, 1964, at about 10:00 p. m. two men approached the taxicab of Charles E. Brown and asked to be taken to the 1600 block on South Kilbourn Avenue, Chicago. There were no residences on that…