Brown v. State

CATES, Judge.

First degree murder: sentence, death by electrocution.

I

Brown, Irving Crawford and Gloria Jean Cannon left her home early in the morning May 4, 1969, in Crawford’s car and drove to the cargo yard of Mercury Freight Lines. There Brown and Crawford stole a carton purporting to contain a power lawnmower. An employee of the freight line, Buster Williams, tried to stop them but Crawford chased him off with a pistol.

While Williams went to alert the watchman, Azell Plarris, Brown and Crawford put the box in the trunk of the car. Harris chased them on foot. Crawford driving with his head…