State v. Prue

The controversy before the Court in this criminal case arises because the trial judge, as the trier of facts, failed to announce verdicts on six counts of the nine-count indictment against the respondent, Andre Lynn Prue. The Court of Special Appeals held that the trial judge’s silence amounted to *533acquittals on the six counts. This Court granted the State’s petition for a writ of certiorari which challenged that holding by the Court of Special Appeals.

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The facts pertinent to the issue before us are as follows. The respondent Andre Lynn Prue and his girlfriend, Barbara Kidd, were riding on a…