Brown v. State

KAHN, Judge.

On March 1, 1990, appellant Bernard Vernon Brown shot and killed Archie Richardson at the Hilltop Apartments in Jacksonville. Appellant did not deny that he shot Richardson, but maintained that such shooting was justifiable because of appellant’s well-founded fear that Richardson was armed and posed a threat of immediate great bodily harm to appellant. Brown claimed he did not know he had killed Richardson. Upon learning that Archie Richardson was indeed dead, and not merely frightened or deterred, appellant presented himself at a Jacksonville police station, where he gave a…