Brown v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellant seeks relief in this court from the trial court’s refusal to sever two counts of aggravated robbery for separate trials.

On December 28,1988, appellant Leffel Brown was charged by information with two counts of attempted capital murder and two counts of aggravated robbery occurring on December 23, 1988. Appellant was also charged with being an habitual offender. Appellant moved to sever the charges and the state agreed to a severance of the two attempted capital murder charges but opposed trying the two aggravated robbery charges separately. The court denied the…