Prince v. State

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Arrow and the Song 1

In this appeal, we have not an arrow but a “trajectory rod,” which a police officer used to show the path a bullet took when the appellant, Joshua Prince, fired a rifle from above at his ex-girlfriend as she cowered behind the rear bumper of her car in a parking garage. Mr. Prince was charged with attempted murder and other charges, tried before a jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, and convicted. On appeal, he challenges the circuit court’s decision to allow the…