SMITH v. STATE

No. 85-170.

715 P.2d 1164 (1986)

Richard Lee SMITH, Appellant (Defendant), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

March 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Barrett, Cheyenne, for appellant.

A.G. McClintock, Atty. Gen., Gerald A. Stack, Deputy Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., and Kevin Saxby, Legal Intern, for appellee.

Before THOMAS, C.J., and BROWN, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and MACY, JJ.


URBIGKIT, Justice.

This case brings the court to consider an appeal from a conviction of aggravated armed robbery and kidnapping resulting in a life sentence under an habitual-criminal statute, as now affirmed by this decision.

Issues presented are denial of a motion for acquittal, premised on contended insufficiency of eyewitness identification, and the trial court rejection of tendered evidence of a statement previously given by an unavailable witness.<...

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