The crucial issue here was that of identification. On direct examination, after a witness identified defendant as one of the perpetrators of the crime, the prosecutor asked the witness if there came a time "when a detective showed you photographs?" The witness answered "Yes." A motion for a mistrial was denied. The question and the answer would reasonably indicate that the witness had made an extrajudicial identification of a photograph of this defendant. Such bolstering...
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