Legal Opinion
State v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided April 24, 1978No. 5253-1PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJames, J.
At jury trial, Melvin Earl Jones was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of a young Seattle woman.
Jones was arrested and charged with the murder of two young women who had been found dead in their apartments during the previous month. The victims were in their early twenties and each had been acquainted with Jones. In both cases, the cause of death was determined to be strangulation, and there was evidence of sexual assault. Jones was acquitted on one charge and appeals from his conviction on the other.
We find his principal assignment of error to have merit and, accordingly, we…
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