Brown v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was charged by way of information with two counts of Felony Murder by Arson. She was tried before a jury and found guilty on both counts. She was sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment of thirty (80) years upon each conviction.

The facts are as follows. Appellant lived with her mother, her infant child and her two brothers, James and Bruce, in a two story frame house in Elkhart. In the fall of 1980 she was a tenth grade student in Elk-hart Central High School. During this period of time appellant and her mother were frequently at odds over such matters as…