Upton v. Jones

CARLEY, Justice.

Justin Zale Jones was tried before a jury and was convicted of armed robbery and improper display of license plates. On direct appeal, two of his four enumerations were that a show-up identification of him by the victim was improperly admitted into evidence and that the jury’s verdict was not voluntarily reached. Deeming these two enumerations to be abandoned because of appellate counsel’s failure to support them with citations to the record or with legal argument, the Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions in an unpublished opinion. Jones v. State, 246 Ga. App. XXVII…