Jones v. State

Smith, Justice.

Following a trial before a DeKalb County jury, appellant Arthur Lee Jones, a/k/a Alan Jason, was convicted of murder for the July 10, 1981 shooting death of seventeen year old William “Shorty” Colquitt and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal Jones raises six enumerations of error. Finding no error, we affirm.

Appellant and his common law wife, Paula Kimbell, resided in a DeKalb County apartment complex at the time of the shooting. On the night of July 10,1981, William Colquitt was visiting friends at the apartment complex when Paula Kimbell asked him to drive her to a…