People v. Phelps

Defendant was convicted of armed robbery, MCLA 750.529; MSA 28.797 and appeals.

Mr. John Starwas, on March 2, 1972, was robbed at gun point while working in his party store. Some two weeks after the robbery, Officer Wolak received an informant’s tip that defendant had committed the robbery. Acting on this information, Officer Wolak showed Mr. Starwas and Eddie McClure, an employee present at the time of the robbery, three photographs. Two of the photographs were pictures of the defendant and a third picture was of another individual. Mr. Starwas identified the defendant as the robber from the…