Jones v. State

Hill, Justice.

The appellant Robert Lee Jones was indicted by the grand jury for the murder of Jack Bell, tried before a jury in the Superior Court of Fulton County, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on July 23, 1974.

Upon the trial, Emily Louise Smith, who lived with the victim, testified that she and the victim were in their room at the rooming house where they and the appellant lived on the night of June 1, 1974; that about 11:50 p.m. the appellant knocked on a window near the front of the rooming house and she went to the front door to let him in; that the appellant asked where…