Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.
Appellant Todd Omar Jones was convicted of murder in connection with the shooting death of Tavares Roberts. Finding no error in the denial of Jones’s motion for new trial, 1 we affirm.
1. The evidence authorized the jury to find that Gregory Thompson encountered Jones at the Red Carpet Inn in Macon and Jones asked where he could purchase some drugs. Thompson got into Jones’s vehicle and the two went to the Discovery Inn. There, they knocked on the door of Room 110; Takeisha Johnson answered and told them that the other occupants, Jamar Meadows and Tavares Roberts, were…
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