Legal Opinion
Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided December 1, 2005No. S06A0036PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARLEY, Justice.
After a jury trial, Derrick Jones was found guilty of malice murder, two alternative counts of felony murder, and two separate counts which charged the underlying felonies of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The felony murder counts stood vacated by operation of law, and the trial court merged the aggravated assault and firearm possession counts into the malice murder. See Malcolm v. State, 263 Ga. 369, 371-374 (4), (5) (434 SE2d 479) (1993). The trial court entered judgment of conviction for the remaining count of malice murder and…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Malcolm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Head v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1984
- Holcomb v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
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