Jones v. State

Peterson, Justice.

Following a jury trial, Willie Clifford Jones was convicted of felony murder for the death of his four-year-old daughter, Ty’Asia Michelle Phillips.1 He appeals on the sole ground that he was convicted by general verdict on a count of felony murder that contained two predicates, one of which, he claims, there was insufficient evidence to support. Because we find that there was sufficient evidence to convict Jones of felony murder based on one of the two charged predicates for felony murder, and that this is enough to sustain his conviction, we affirm.

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