Jones v. Georgia
Annotate this CaseJoseph Jones, III appealed his convictions for felony murder in connection with the shooting deaths of Quatez Strong and Jalen Walker. In his sole enumeration of error, Jones argued that, because “unrebutted” testimony showed that he was provoked to shoot, the trial evidence at most established voluntary manslaughter and was insufficient to support his felony-murder convictions. To this, the Georgia Supreme Court disagreed: because a rational jury could have rejected the testimony that Jones claimed established provocation, and the evidence was more than sufficient to support Jones’s felony-murder convictions, the judgment was affirmed.
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