STATE v. PAUL

No. 566.

485 P.2d 375 (1971)

82 N.M. 619

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Wesley PAUL, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1971.

Certiorari Denied May 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John V. Coan, Jack L. Love, Albuquerque, for appellant.

James A. Maloney, Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, Leila A. Andrews, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


OPINION

DEE C. BLYTHE, District Judge.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of armed robbery, raising questions concerning line-up identification, sufficiency of the evidence to support the grand jury indictment, and admission of evidence of "casing" of the store which later was robbed. We affirm.

Despite the line-up identification issue, the defendant was convicted wholly on circumstantial evidence. None of the eye-witnesses to the crime was...

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