State v. Jones

STROUD, Judge.

*105 Defendant Edward Earl Jones ("defendant") appeals from his conviction of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. On appeal, defendant contends that he was denied his fundamental right to effective assistance of counsel and contends that his defense counsel failed to argue self-defense on his behalf. But the record indicates that counsel did stipulate to the State's admission of evidence of self-defense and argued self-defense in the closing argument. We therefore hold that defendant did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel and find…