Alvin Brown v. State of Mississippi

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

COLEMAN, JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. A Hinds County jury found Alvin Brown guilty of manslaughter and four counts of aggravated assault. The circuit court sentenced Brown to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for manslaughter and ten years for each aggravated assault conviction, with the aggravated assault sentences to run concurrently with each other and consecutively to the manslaughter sentence.

¶ 2. Brown appealed and we assigned his case to the Mississippi Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded for a new trial…