Jones v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following a bench trial, Wesley Jones appeals his conviction of armed robbery 1 of a restaurant and of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, 2 challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and arguing that the State failed to show he waived his right to a jury trial knowingly and intelligently. We hold that some evidence corroborated the testimony of Jones’s accomplice as to Jones’s participation in the crimes, and that this and other testimony showed that together the two men took the restaurant’s money from the immediate presence of a restaurant…