Brown v. State

MYERS, P.J., for the Court.

¶ 1. Mario Brown was convicted of manslaughter in the Coahoma County Circuit Court for a shooting that resulted in Sean Cole’s death. He was sentenced to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). Brown appeals his conviction and sentence arguing the trial court committed three errors: (1) the trial court erred in allowing the State’s forensic expert to testify about unreliable, inaccurate, and speculative matters; (2) the trial court erred in refusing Brown’s self-defense jury instructions; and (3) the trial court erred…