Legal Opinion
Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 27, 2017No. S16A1742
1Opinion of the Court
300 Ga. 814
FINAL COPY S16A1742. JONES v. THE STATE. BOGGS, Justice. In 2010, Daryl Keon Jones was tried before a jury on charges of malice murder, felony murder, and cruelty to children in the first degree in the death of his girlfriend’s 17-month-old daughter.1 The jury acquitted Jones of malice murder and was unable to reach a verdict on the charges of felony murder and cruelty to children, resulting in a mistrial on those counts. When the State retried Jones in 2012, the jury found him guilty of both felony murder and cruelty to children in the first degree. Jones now appeals from the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Ashe v. SwensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Yeager v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- United States v. Shukri BakerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2011
- Francis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
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