A MAN accused of shooting a woman in the crotch after asking her to perform oral sex has been acquitted of creating a risk of bodily harm.

But Laurie Edward Elliott, 54, of Fairfield Gardens in Adelaide, was today found guilty of threatening a person with a firearm and possessing a firearm without a licence.

District Court Judge David Lovell entered the verdicts following a trial without a jury and will hand down his reasons at a later date.

Crown prosecutor Sandy McDonald told the court at Elliott's trial that the victim was shot in her car in January, 2006.

She said the woman had owed Elliott money and as part of the deal over her debt she was to drive Elliott whenever he needed transport.

Ms McDonald said that on the day of the shooting, the woman picked Elliott up from a Largs Bay address and noticed he was carrying some black shopping bags.

During the drive he produced a gun and loaded and unloaded the firearm.

Elliott then asked the woman to perform oral sex on him.

Ms McDonald said the woman refused but then agreed if he reduced some of the debt she owed.

"The accused didn't agree to the alternative proposal and he threatened to shoot (the woman)," she said.

The woman called her father on her mobile phone and noticed that Elliott was pointing the firearm around her crotch, Ms McDonald said.

She said the gun went off and Elliott told the woman he didn't mean to shoot her.

The woman was shot in the inner thigh and the bullet lodged in the car seat.

She let Elliott out of the car and then drove to a shopping centre where she called her father and then woke up in hospital.

Judge Lovell remanded Elliott in custody for sentencing submissions next month.