People v. King

Defendant was convicted by a jury of armed robbery of a Detroit bar. On appeal from tbe Court of Appeals’ affirmance of his conviction, he claims first, that his pretrial identification by the bar owner and barmaid were inadmissible and, second, that the trial court’s comments on the evidence were prejudicial and deprived him of a fair trial.

Regarding the first claim — the tainted identifica tion — we find no error.

The record discloses that the bar owner had gone through a “bunch of pictures” and positively identified defendant as the holdup man. It was only after he had picked defendant from…