Brown v. State

Raushamon Brown appeals from the judgment and sentence entered after a jury found him guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Brown was charged with two counts of aggravated assault after he used a screwdriver in an altercation involving two individuals, a boyfriend and girlfriend, sitting at a bus' stop. According to Brown’s trial testimony, he pulled out the screwdriver in self-defense after the boyfriend approached him in an intimidating manner. During the charge conference, Brown requested a self-defense instruction, either on the justifiable use of deadly or non-deadly force.…