State v. Cox

On June 1, 1972, defendant-appellee (Cox) was charged by amended affidavit with carrying a pistol without a license in a motor vehicle. A trial by jury was had in the Posey Circuit Court, and at the close of the State’s evidence the trial court, upon motion by Cox, directed the jury to enter a verdict of not guilty, which they did. The State thereafter filed a motion to correct errors and subsequently an amended motion to correct errors to both of which the trial court sustained a motion to strike on behalf of Cox. From the action of the trial court in striking the State’s amended motion to…