Brown v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

The focus in this appeal by James Franklin Brown (Brown) is that the trial court failed to confine the proof offered by the State to the essential elements of the charged offenses and that the product of this error was to deprive him of his right to a fair trial and a unanimous verdict. Brown complains specifically of the admission of evidence of uncharged misconduct, without proper scrutiny and without appropriate limiting instructions; the refusal of the trial court to limit the consideration of uncharged misconduct and to restrict the jury in its deliberations to those acts…