Brown v. State

Appellant, James Wayne Brown, age sixteen, lived with his mother, Joan Brown, at the time of her death. He was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirm.1

When construing the evidence in favor of the verdict, the jury could have found the following facts:

On Sunday, October 16, 1988, the victim was reported missing. Her billfold and car keys were also missing. Six days later, her partially decomposed body was discovered in a wooded area approximately three hundred feet from her home. She was wearing the same *154clothes that she had worn on the day of her disappearance…