Brown v. State

BOEHM, Justice.

Viewed most favorably to the verdict, the evidence at trial showed that on the night of February 19, 1996, defendant Rickey Brown got into an argument over use of a television set with Sylvia Hayworth in her home in Indianapolis. Hayworth shared the home with her boyfriend and his friend Darryl Jones. Brown lived across the street. The argument escalated and Brown shot both Hayworth and Jones in the head. Jones died at the scene and Hayworth died that night at a local hospital. A jury convicted Brown of two counts of murder 1 and one count of carrying a handgun without a…