DeGross v. State

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Sidney M. DeGross was charged with three counts of robbery in the first degree, one count of assault in the second degree, and two counts of attempted murder. The robbery charges stemmed from three separate armed robberies. The second-degree assault charge related to the second of the three robberies; the two attempted murder charges related to the third.

DeGross entered a plea of no contest to the third robbery and was tried by a jury on the remaining charges. The jury convicted DeGross of the second robbery but acquitted him of the first. The jury also acquitted…