“Did you ever see him?”
“Yes. They took me down to see if I could identify him.”
“Could you?”
“No.”
“Did you see him alone or in a line-up?”
“They showed him to me in a line-up, in one of those inspection boxes where a person stands on kind of a stage with a lot of lights beating on him and a white screen stretched across the front so he can’t see you, and yet you can see him perfectly.”
“And you couldn’t pick him out of the line-up?”
“No.”
“Then what did they do?”
“Then they put him in a darkened room where there was just a little light, put an overcoat and a hat on him, just the way he’d been dressed at the time of the crime, and asked me if I could identify him.”