Pitts v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Pitts was convicted of the capital felony murder of Dr. Bernard Jones, committed in the course of kidnapping, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. For reversal he questions two rulings about the admissibility of evidence and, secondarily, the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

Before narrating some of the testimony we should explain that the appellant questions the credibility of Dr. Jones’s widow, Benita Jones, who identified Gene Pitts as the person who kidnaped her husband, and also relies heavily upon the testimony of Linda…