Brown v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Adrian Dale Brown was convicted by a jury of the murder of Johnny Mac Roberts and sentenced to life imprisonment. * He appeals, raising as his sole enumeration of error the trial court’s failure to grant a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel.

The evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict shows that the day the victim was killed, his common law wife, Eunice Goens, returned home where she saw the defendant and Donald Smith, the latter carrying a quart of liquor. She asked the two men to leave because she expected a probation officer to…