State v. Griffin

LAWRENCE G. CRAHAN, Judge.

Appellant Sherman B. Griffin (“Defendant”) appeals the judgment entered upon his conviction by a jury of robbery in the second degree. Defendant contends his constitutional right to be free from double jeopardy was violated when the trial court first accepted the jury’s verdict of not guilty on count one of the information, robbery in the first degree, and then upon discovery of an error in the clerk’s reading of the verdicts, refused to accept the verdicts, required the jury to further deliberate upon the matter, and ultimately accepted a verdict of guilty on count…