Brown v. State

Defendant was convicted in 1968, in a trial by jury, of murder in the second degree upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree and felony murder. His appeal following the overruling of a belated motion to correct errors in 1975 presents three issues.

1. Failure of the trial court to hold a competency hearing following a suggestion of insanity.

2. Admissibility of items of physical evidence.

3. Failure of the trial court to instruct the jury regarding the weight to be accorded to its view of the scene of the crime.

The sufficiency of the evidence has not been challenged. We, therefore,…