Brown v. State

I respectfully dissent. In the Court of Criminal Appeals, Tavares Brown argued that the trial court erred by failing to give jurors the following alibi instruction he had requested in writing:

“I charge you that the Defendant in this case has introduced evidence tending to show that he was not present at the time and place of the commission of the alleged offense for which he is here on trial. If, after consideration of all the evidence, you have a reasonable doubt that the Defendant was present at the time the crime was committed, he is entitled to an acquittal.”

(Emphasis added.) The Court of…