State v. Jones

LAKE, Justice.

The defendant, Wallace Brandon Jones, was indicted on 9 January 1995 for first-degree murder and on 21 August 1995 for robbery with a dangerous weapon. He was tried capitally to a jury at the 18 September 1995 Criminal Session of Superior Court, Washington County, Judge Franklin R. Brown presiding. The jury found defendant guilty of robbery with a dangerous weapon and of first-degree murder on the basis of malice, premeditation and deliberation and under the felony murder rule. After a capital sentencing proceeding pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000, the jury recommended a sentence…