Legal Opinion
Jones v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided May 13, 1997No. A97A0990PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Harold R. Banke.
David Anthony Jones was convicted of two counts of armed robbery, one count of criminal attempt to commit robbery, and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Following the denial of his motion for new trial, Jones enumerates nine errors.
On April 10, 1994, at closing time, three men robbed Larissa Sirotta, an employee of TCBY Yogurt (“TCBY”), at gunpoint. Sirotta identified Jones as the man who went behind the counter and grabbed the cash out of the register. Police tracked the robbers to a nearby apartment complex, where they lost the…
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