Brown v. State

Andrews, Judge.

Tim Brown shot and killed Terri Brown, his estranged wife, and Gary Sentell. He was charged with murder and convicted by a jury of two counts of voluntary manslaughter. At trial, Brown claimed he was legally insane when he shot the two. His sole enumeration of error on appeal is that the trial court erred by allowing the State’s expert psychiatrist to render an opinion as to his sanity which was improperly based on hearsay.

To refute expert psychiatric testimony presented in support of Brown’s insanity defense, the State presented testimony from a psychiatrist who examined Brown…