Jones v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting appellant-defendant of murder in the first degree and sentencing him to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, in accordance with a jury verdict.

The State’s witnesses as to the circumstances of the killing were Stanley Walker, a son of the victim, and Martin Madison, 16 years of age at the time of the trial. Stanley testified that he arrived at the filling station, the scene of the homicide, about noon to help his father who was working and in charge of the filling station at the time; his father was…