Legal Opinion
People v. Jones
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided December 10, 1975No. Docket 21959, 21960PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtV. J. Brennan, J.
Defendants, Delvin Jones, Jr. and Stanley Arno Watkins, were charged with first-degree murder contrary to MCLA 750.316; MSA 28.548, under the felony-murder section of that statute. They were accused of attempting to rob Moore’s Grocery Store in Detroit on February *2267, 1972, with the help of a third accomplice, and causing the death of the store owner, Odell Moore, in the course of perpetrating that crime. Both defendants were found guilty of the charged offense, and were sentenced to a mandatory life sentence in prison. They appeal by right.
At the time of the attempted robbery, three persons…
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