Jones v. State

The appellant, Tony Demetrius Edward Jones, was convicted of murder in violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975, and of robbery in the first degree in violation of § 13A-8-41. He was sentenced to 25 years' in the penitentiary on each conviction, to be served concurrently.

The state's evidence tended to show that on August 14, 1992, the victim, Jack Poe, died as a result of a gunshot wound to the chest. The state presented two eyewitnesses, Lebarron Johnson and Keith Matthews. Matthews, an employee at the Northside Check Exchange in Mobile, testified that at 6:00 p.m. on August 14, 1992,…