Case ID: ga-app_148/html/0659-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bell, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

57017, 57018.
    RANGER v. THE STATE (two cases).
    Argued January 3, 1979
    Decided January 9, 1979.
    
      Stephen M. Friedberg, for appellant (Case No. 57017).
    Tony B. Ranger, pro se.
    
    
      Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Joseph J. Drolet, Victor Alexander, Jr., J. Wallace Speed, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
   Bell, Chief Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction of armed robbery. Held:

1. Soon after the incident in question and prior to trial, the victim was shown six photographs from which he chose that of defendant. Defendant challenges this identification procedure in that defendant’s photograph was the only one with writing on the back. The victim and the attendant officers testifed that the victim did not hold the pictures up to a light, that he never turned the photographs on their backs, and that the victim was unaware of any writing on the back. Therefore, the court correctly concluded that the photographic display was not impermissibly suggestive as a matter of law. Payne v. State, 233 Ga. 294 (210 SE2d 775).

2. The evidence authorized the conviction.

Judgment affirmed.

Webb and Banke, JJ., concur.