Brown v. State

Clarke, Justice.

Fred (Freddie) and Edward (Eddie) Brown, two brothers age seventeen and sixteen respectively, were convicted of the murder of Michael Thigpen and sentenced to life imprisonment. Freddie was also sentenced to ten years for aggravated assault, to run concurrently with the life sentence.

Freddie and Eddie, along with a younger brother and a friend, Chris Byrd, attended a high school graduation party on Lake Sinclair. The party was given by the victim at his family’s cabin and was attended primarily by young people from a Hancock County high school which has been described as a…