Brown v. State

Henderson Brown was found guilty by a jury of aggravated robbery and theft of property, charges which arose from a hold-up of a branch office of a savings and loan association in January 1978. He was sentenced as a habitual offender to an aggregate sentence of thirty years’ imprisonment. We affirmed. Brown v. State, CR 79-5 (April 16, 1979). Brown subsequently filed in this court a petition pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37, which resulted in his being granted leave to file a petition for postconviction relief in the trial court. Brown v. State, CR 79-5 (December 10, 1979). The Rule 37…