Brown v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Alfredo B. Brown from a judgment of conviction and sentence for second-degree murder entered below on an adverse jury verdict. The sole point on appeal is that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence an admittedly gruesome, blown-up, 2' x 3', color photograph of the deceased lying on the bed in which she was shot. The outstanding features of this gory photograph *1327are the dead body of the deceased and the large amounts of blood on the body, on the bed, and on the floor.

Although the issue presented is a close one, we conclude that the conceded relevance…