State v. Anderson

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The defendant-respondent, James Leon Anderson, and the victim, George Ford, had been playing cards one evening at someone else’s house in Baltimore City. They left the card game together, and Ford offered Anderson a ride home in Ford’s automobile. According to Ford’s testimony at the trial below, Ford entered the vehicle on the driver’s side, reached across and opened the door on the passenger’s side, and then started the vehicle. As soon as he started the vehicle, he heard “a big noise in the car” and “thought that the car had blown up.” Next, his arm and his leg “got numb,”…