Emerson v. State

Appellant in this case was convicted of robbery in a trial before Honorable Robert Wade, Judge Pro Tem of the Marion County Criminal Court, and was subsequently sentenced to ten to twenty years at the Indiana State Prison. Appellant appealed the conviction alleging that the prosecutor’s questions to a State’s witness were suggestive of the appellant’s identification in the court room. Emerson’s conviction was affirmed by this Court in the case of Emerson v. State (1970), 253 Ind. 515, 255 N. E. 2d 532. Shortly thereafter appellant filed a petition for post conviction relief under Ind. PC.…