People v. Brown

Defendant, Buster Brown, Junior, together with Dean Mulligan, George Morin and Robert Rouse, was indicted for armed robbery. Later, a severance for Mulligan was ordered. At the beginning of a bench trial for the remaining three, the charges against Morin were nolle pressed, and he later testified for the State. The trial proceeded as to defendants Brown and Rouse, and at the end of the State’s case the trial court found Rouse not guilty. Brown’s sister then testified in his defense as an alibi witness. Brown was found guilty as charged, and he was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven to…