Jones v. State

The appellant, Robert Jones, was tried and convicted in the circuit court of Benton county, Mississippi, for the murder of Mark Mason, a constable, on September 4, 1933, and was sentenced to suffer the death penalty. It appears that, on complaint of one Walker, a justice of the peace gave Mark Mason, a constable, a purported search warrant for the premises of Frank Jones, the father of Robert Jones, at whose house the appellant lived, and that, although the search warrant was void, the search was made and no goods were found. Mark Mason was accompanied by another person, the son of the…