State v. Brown

HIGGINS, Commissioner.

Appeal from denial, after evidentiary hearing, of motion under Criminal Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., to vacate and set aside judgment of conviction of murder, first degree.

Richard Brown, Courtney Lorenzo Beasley, Archie B. Brown, and Jimmie Sharp were indicted for killing Vernon Coleman on May 11, 1964, by beating and kicking deceased and striking him with a cluster of brick, cemented by mortar, weighing 90 pounds. Upon his separate trial defendant was convicted by a jury; his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment, and the ensuing judgment was affirmed upon direct appeal.…