Biography
Ed Brown was one of three Black Mississippi sharecroppers tortured into confessing to the murder of Raymond Stewart. Arrested on April 1, 1934, he was sentenced to death after a two-day trial. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the convictions in Brown v. Mississippi on February 17, 1936. On remand the defendants pleaded no contest to manslaughter. Ed Brown received a ten-year manslaughter sentence after remand; discharged in December 1941.
Brust places this defendant in Meridian jail after arrest, within the Brown v. Mississippi prosecution.