Parrison v. State

RAKER, Judge.

In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether Petitioner Christopher E. Parrison was properly convicted of the use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence, where the weapon used during the commission of the crime was an altered shotgun having one barrel measuring approximately fifteen and three-eighths inches in length and an overall length of approximately twenty-six and three-eighths inches. The specific question we face is whether Parrison’s weapon falls within the definition of a “short-barreled shotgun” as provided by Maryland Code (1957, 1992 RepLVol.)…