Jones v. State

ISHEE, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Brett Jones, Jr. was convicted of murder in the Circuit Court of Lee County and sentenced to life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). Aggrieved, Jones appeals. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2. During August of 2004, Jones was living with his paternal grandparents, Ber-tis Jones and Madge Jones. Jones’s girlfriend, Michelle Austin, had run away from home in the first week of August 2004. Austin was staying mostly at Jones’s grandparents’ home, as well as at an abandoned fish restaurant near the home. One August 9,…