Butler v. State

Phipps, Judge.

Gary Butler was tried by a jury and found guilty of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of aggravated assault. The trial court merged the aggravated assault counts into the armed robbery counts and sentenced Butler to 20 years confinement on each armed robbery count, to run concurrently. On appeal, he claims that the trial court erred by denying his motion to suppress identification evidence, that his trial counsel was ineffective and that the evidence was insufficient for the jury to have found him guilty. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

On August 20, 2003, shortly…