The defendant (appellant) was convicted of inflicting an injury with a deadly weapon while engaged in the commission of a robbеry. (Acts 1941, ch. 148, § 6, Burns *266 § 10-4101, Ind. Code § 35-13-4-6.) He was sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal presents the following issues:
1. Sufficiency of the evidence.
2. Denial of due procеss, in that a defense witness, by clerical error of the court, had been subpoenaed for a date thirty days subsequent to the trial dаte and, consequently, was not present.
ISSUE I. The challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence concerns the identificаtion testimony of State’s witnesses, in the light of alibi evidence presented by the defense. The defendant was identified in court by the victim оf the injury and his companions, who were also robbed in the incident. All testified unequivocally that the defendant was the person who committed the crimes, although each admitted that the descriptions they had previously given of the robber were erroneous with respect to his approximate height, weight and hair style. We note that the variances as to height and weight were not so greаt as to raise grave doubts and that the difference in hair style could easily be accounted for in a variety of ways. We alsо consider the evidence that the defendant is right-handed, whereas the robber held the weapon in his left hand, to be uncompеlling.
Defendant has placed considerable reliance upon the failure of the State to impeach the alibi testimony and testimony supplied, in the main, by himself, that pointed the finger of suspicion directly towards an acquaintance. We hasten to рoint out that the testimony of the three victims identifying the defendant as the culprit was a direct contradiction of the alibi testimony аnd also rendered the defendant’s protestations highly suspect. The jury is not necessarily required to believe alibi evidence, although unimpeached. If other evidence is in conflict with it, the matter is one of weight and credibility.
Stephens
v.
State,
(1973)
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In substance, we have here anоther case of conflicting testimony and not a conviction resting upon evidence so frail that it can not be said to be substаntial and probative. The jury, as the trier of facts, was the judge of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight of the evidence.
Hubble
v.
State,
(1973)
ISSUE II. One Dwight Haynes was the acquaintance of the defendant above mentioned and whom, according to the defendant, was a suspect more likely than himself. Haynes was an inmate of the State Reformatory during the trial and the preparatory period. The defendant asserts that he had had Haynes subpoenaed pursuant to statute, (Acts 1905, ch. 169, § 255, Burns § 9-1623, Ind. Code § 35-1-33-1) but that due to a cleriсal error, not the fault of the defendant of his counsel, the command of the subpoena was for February 21st, rather than for Januаry 21st. He argues that the failure of the court to have the witness present was a denial of due process. Acknowledging that the fаilure to move for a continuance or to object at the trial to the nonappearance of a witness is an abandonment of the efforts to secure such witness, the defendant, nevertheless, seeks to avoid such result by showing that he was incarcerated and had requested an early trial under Ind. R. Crim. P. 4(B) and could not request a continuance without occasioning a delay for which he would have been chargeable.
There are numerous reasons why the defendant’s position upon this issue is without merit.
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We first note that there is nothing in the record to support the defendant’s claim that he had requested that the witness be subpoenaed, оr that the error was that of court personnel. In considering cases upon appeal, we are confined to the rеcord before us.
State
v.
Maplewood Heights Corp.,
(1973)
There has been no showing- as to when the defendant first discovered that his witness had been called for an incоrrect day, that he made any effort, upon such discovery, to have a corrected process issue, that the witness cоuld not have been procured without occasioning a delay, that such a delay, if any, would have caused a continuanсe beyond the "early trial motion” deadline or even that such a delay would have been chargeable to him. It boggles the mind tо assume that one standing trial upon a serious charge would forego the presentation of relevant and persuasive еvidence in preference to a brief delay in the proceedings.
Assuming a record supporting the defendant’s claims he, nеvertheless, would not be entitled to relief, because he has failed to show how he was harmed by the absence of the witness. The circumstances complained of, it is charged, precluded the presentation of critical evidence. The situation, therefore, is the same as that prevailing when one seeks a new trial by reason of newly discovered evidence, and it appears that the same rules should apply. These require a showing of reasonable diligence in procuring the evidenсe at the trial
(Taylor
v.
State,
(1971)
Other than to have caused the issuance of a subpoena, there is no shоwing or claim that the defendant took any steps to procure the witness at the trial. No recess or other special аssistance from the court was requested. There has been no showing of the testimony that would have been forthcoming from the absent witness or of the relevance his testimony would have had. The only claim made by the defendant is that the presence of the witness would have illustrated to the jury that such witness more nearly fit the description of the robber that was first given by the witnesses than did the defendant. Assuming such to be the case — a proposition in no way substantiated — in view of the witnesses’ unequivocal identification of the defendant at the trial, it can hardly be said that the likelihood of such evidence altering the result upon a new trial would be anything but speculative.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
Givan, C.J. and Arterburn, DeBruler and Hunter, JJ., concur.
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