Ellis v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Kenneth Ray Ellis was convicted of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor in a bench trial in the Carroll County Circuit Court. He was fined and given a forty-eight-hour suspended sentence. Aggrieved, he raises three issues on appeal: (1) whether the circuit court erred in failing to grant a verdict of acquittal because the State failed to preserve video evidence from the traffic stop, (2) whether the trial court erred in admitting all evidence obtained after the traffic stop since Ellis was acquitted of the careless driving that had been the basis…