Farmer v. State

Alfred Mark Farmer, the appellant, complains of a conviction for attempted armed robbery in the Circuit Court for Calvert County before Judge Perry G. Bowen, Jr. sitting without a jury. He was sentenced to a term of fifteen years.

There was evidence from which the trial court could have found the following:

About 6:30 p.m., January 4, 1968 Edward George Acton entered a grocery store on Ponds Wood Road and pointed a shotgun, which had tape around it, at Louise Bowen, co-owner of the store. She started to struggle with Acton and called to her husband, Raymond Bowen, who left their living quarters…