In the trial of defendant-appellant for robbery in the first degree, the complaining witness was permitted over objection to testify that when the police captured defendant the complainant identified him as one of two men who held him up and that the man thus identified was the defendant. The theory on which this evidence of identification was received was that it was part of the res gestae. It seems clear, however, that the proof was not admissible on this ground...
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