Jones v. State

Phipps, Judge.

April Jones was charged with the murder of Albert Ragland. She appeals her conviction of involuntary manslaughter. She challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and the correctness of various evidentiary rulings by the trial court. Finding the evidence sufficient and no reversible error, we affirm.

Jones and Ragland lived in the same neighborhood. State’s witnesses Willie Malone, Serena Sims, Cortez Robinson, and Rodriguez Ring also lived in the neighborhood. On August 19, 2000, a neighborhood get-together took place at King’s and Sims’s houses. Jones and…