Elmer v. State

THIEME, Judge.

Appellant David Allen Elmer and co-defendant Robert Keith Brown were tried before a jury, presided over by Judge Edward D.E. Rollins, Jr., in the Circuit Court for Cecil County on ten charges stemming from a single shotgun blast fired from a car in which appellant was the passenger and Brown was the driver. Motions for judgments of acquittal were granted with respect to five of the charges at the close of the State’s case, and the jury returned guilty verdicts on the remaining five charges. 1 The judge granted appellant’s motion for a new trial with respect to the charge of…