WA JONES v. Commonwealth

We review the conviction of William Avery Jones, II, of the felonious distribution of hashish, a controlled drug. The defendant was sentenced by the trial court to serve ten years in the penitentiary with four years suspended during good behavior.

Jones was arrested on a warrant which identified him not by name but by description. He argued that he was not the intended recipient of the warrant and questioned the identification. While the description in the warrant of the accused person more nearly fitted the roommate of defendant, it was the defendant who was arrested; who received a…