State v. Jones

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

The state doubly charged defendant James Jones with armed robbery of two victims who were the only two customers in a small tavern. Pursuant to guilty verdicts the court sentenced defendant to concurrent 15 years in prison, consecutive to defendant’s thirty-year sentence in another case.

The state’s evidence: Victims James Kelly and Mary Taylor testified defendant Jones and an unidentified companion entered the tavern. Jones was partly covered by a pillow case and carried a rifle; on his command the victims lay on the floor. The two men talked. One put his foot on Mr.…