Gray v. State

The Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (Bowen, J.) denied the motions of an accused for judgment of acquittal made at the end of the State’s case and when all the evidence was in, and the jury found him guilty of armed robbery. The Court of Special Appeals reversed the judgment on the sole ground of the insufficiency of evidence as a matter of law and ordered a new trial in the face of the accused’s specific request and strong argument that the remand properly should be for the entry of a judgment of acquittal, the judgment he says would have been entered at the trial had the judge…