# Godwin v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · March 12, 1981 · 625 P.2d 1262

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9544547

## Case

- **Full name:** Larry Paul GODWIN, Appellant, v. the STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** March 12, 1981
- **Citations:** 625 P.2d 1262
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Bussey
- **Judges:** Cornish, Brett, Bussey
- **Cited by:** 16 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9544547

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the witness must be the one to testify about an extrajudicial identification, not a police officer or other third party

## Opinion text

BUSSEY, Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur for the reason that the evidence of the appellant’s guilt was overwhelming, and any error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt under Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 , 87 S.Ct. 824 (1967).

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