Jones v. State

The defendant, Fay Jones, was charged in the district court of Tillman county with the crime of murder; was tried; convicted, and sentenced to serve a term of life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary; and has appealed.

It is contended that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction for murder, although counsel concede in their brief that the same might be sufficient to sustain a conviction for manslaughter in the first degree.

The evidence showed that Fay Jones, the defendant, and the deceased, Robert Lee McDonald, who was known in the community as Jack McDonald, both lived in or…