Connelly v. State

Phipps, Judge.

Scott Connelly was convicted of giving a false name to a law enforcement officer and obstruction of a law enforcement officer. In this appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the latter conviction. Finding merit in the challenge, we reverse.

Connelly and Grady Williams were jointly charged with armed robbery and other offenses arising from Williams’s robbery at a BP food mart on the evening of December 3, 2005. An eyewitness to the crime told City of Rincon police that the robber had fled into an adjacent wooded area that led to a mobile home park. A…