State v. Jones

FRYE, Justice.

Defendant, Dontrill Lee Jones, was indicted on 7 June 1993 for first-degree murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied motor vehicle. In a noncapital trial, the jury found defendant guilty of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and guilty of first-degree murder under the felony murder theory. The trial judge arrested judgment on the underlying felony of discharging a firearm into an occur pied vehicle and imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for the first-degree murder conviction.

On appeal to this Court, defendant makes five arguments. After…