CHRISTIAN v. STATE


555 S.W.2d 863 (1977)

Heina Leroy CHRISTIAN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Tennessee, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

Rehearing Denied July 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Fink, Memphis, for petitioner.

John F. Southworth, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Alan E. Glenn, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Memphis, for respondent; Brooks McLemore, Jr., Atty. Gen., Nashville, of counsel.


OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

Petitioner was convicted for the armed robbery of a dry-cleaning establishment and received a penitentiary sentence of ten years.

Both in the Court of Criminal Appeals and in this Court error was assigned on his behalf attacking the sufficiency of the evidence. He was positively identified by the victim of the crime, however, from photographs shown to her shortly after the incident, at a pre-trial line-up and in court....

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