The defendant was convicted of rape, sexual perversion and false imprisonment. He challenges such conviction on a half-dozen grounds. All six issues raised will be reviewed in turn.
Photographic identification.
On the same day as the criminal incident, the victim of the assault and the victim of the rape were shown five pictures. Prior to viewing the pictures the victims were told only that the automobile found at the scene was registered to defendant and that defendant’s wallet was
Defendant’s claim is that the photographic identification procedure followed was impermissibly suggestive. It was not. The procedure followed parallels that used in the recent case of
Holmes v.
State.
1
There the witness was shown five or six photographs in sequence. Two were color photos of the defendant and the rest were black and white photos of other persons. As to the two photos of the defendant on colored film, our court, in
Holmes,
held: “Nor is the fact that defendant’s picture was colored, as opposed to black and white, significant.”
2
Ordinarily witnesses are shown head shots from a police “mug shot” file, black and white photos of persons charged with or convicted of crime. But there is no reason why the police may not add photos or snapshots, colored or not, of persons not pictured in the police records. Suggestiveness can accompany a photographic identification.
3
When it does, it arises from the circumstances surrounding the photo identification, particularly statements made by the police to the witness concerning the pictures. It does not arise from the type of camera or kind of film used in taking the pictures. That the victim of the assault identified only the color photo of the defendant, not the black and white photo taken
As to the in-court identification of the defendant by the victim of the rape, she was not able to identify any of the five photos shown her as being that of the defendant at the first exhibiting of them to her. After the photo identification process was over, her companion subsequently told her which photo he had picked, but this does not show impermissibly suggestive procedure by the police. Immediately prior to the preliminary hearing there was a one-to-one confrontation of the victim of the rape and the defendant. She immediately and positively identified the defendant as her assailant. Subsequently she identified the color photo of the defendant as being a photograph of her assailant. There is nothing at all suggestive about this sequence of events. As to both the in-court identifications of this defendant by both the victim of the assault and the victim of the rape we would on this record find that there was an independent source for such identifications, 4 but there is no need for such holding where we hold, as we do, that there was here nothing impermissibly suggestive in the procedures followed.
Instruction given.
The complaint and information in this case charged defendant with having committed “together with Michael Micalizzi” the crime of false imprisonment and rape. Defendant was charged with having acted alone in committing the crime of sexual perversion. Neither information nor complaint referred to sec. 939.05, Stats., the party-to-a-crime statute.
5
The trial court instructed the
Instruction denied.
As to the charge
of
sexual perversion, the defendant sought an instruction adding certain requirements to elements of the crime of sexual perversion, as defined in sec. 944.17 (1), Stats. Instead the trial court gave the standard instruction,
9
and was correct in doing so. The claimed authority for added elements to the crime of sexual perversion is the case of
Jones v.
State.
10
There this court described the act of the convicted defendant as “. . . public, accomplished, not with a consenting spouse but forced upon a victim of the same sex who was unable to escape from the defendant’s physical violence and de
Questions concerning perjury.
On appeal this defendant claims he was prejudiced by an inquiry made of Micalizzi by the prosecutor concerning the crime of perjury.
14
The factual setting at trial was as follows: Micalizzi testified that on the evening in question he was in the company of the defendant and that
Medical examination.
Seven months after he was sentenced to prison, the defendant filed a motion seeking an order authorizing an examination of defendant by a competent physician
Interest of justice.
Finally, as has become par for the course, the defendant repeats the arguments earlier made and contends that, taken together, they warrant granting this defendant a new trial in the interest of justice. We have found each of these arguments to be without substance. Adding them together adds nothing. Zero plus zero equals zero.
By the Court. — Judgment and order affirmed.
Notes
(1973),
Id. at page 497.
Id. at pages 493, 494.
Id. at page 496.
There is no absolute requirement that such charge appear in the information.
See: Nicholas v. State
(1971),
See: Wis J I — Criminal, Part I, 400.
See: Sec. 939.05 (2) (b) and (c), Stats.
State v. Nutley
(1964),
“Sec. 944.17 of the Wisconsin Statutes provides: Sec. 944.17 Sexual perversion. Whoever does either of the following may be . . . (punished); (1) Commits an abnormal act of sexual gratification involving the sex organ of one person and the mouth or anus of another.”
(1972),
Id. at page 748.
Id. at page 748, this court stating: “It can hardly be said the defendant here has any real or concrete interest in the vindication of the rights of privacy of married couples and he should not be allowed to use a reference to such rights to escape a conviction for his criminal acts.”
Id. at page 748, this court there defining defendant’s contention to be that “. . . the statute [See. 944.17 (1), Stats.] could be used to prosecute married persons for consensual sexual intimacies conducted in private and that such prosecution would be an invasion of constitutionally protected rights or marital privacy.”
See: Sec. 946.31, Stats.
See:
Gedicks v. State
(1974),
State v. Herfel
(1971),
