Brown v. State

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of First Degree Murder. The appellant (hereafter “Brown”) was recommended to the mercy of the court and, consequently, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Brown asserts three points of alleged error which, he says, should lead to a reversal of his conviction, viz.:

1. That there was insufficient evidence to support a conviction of murder in the first degree;

2. That it was error to instruct the jury, in effect, that premeditation may involve only a moment’s reflection;

3. That it was error to admit in evidence a written statement signed…