Jones v. State

IRVING, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On February 4, 2010, Tony Jones was convicted of aggravated assault. The Coahoma County Circuit Court sentenced Jones to ten years, with four years suspended, in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. On February 9, 2010, Jones filed a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, a new trial, which the circuit court denied. Feeling aggrieved, Jones appeals and argues that the circuit court erred in refusing to admit Stanley Flagg’s police statement into evidence and in refusing to instruct the jury on the…