Jones v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Jerry Lee Jones was indicted for the capital offense of robbery wherein the victim is intentionally killed. Alabama Code § 13-ll-2(a)(2) (1975). The jury found him guilty of the lesser included offense of murder in the first degree and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment.

This case arises out of the December, 1976, abduction, robbery, and murder of Quenette Shehane. The facts of this brutal crime have been recounted several times, see e.g. Thomas v. State (Ala.Cr.App. 1983); Neal v. State, 372 So.2d 1331 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979), and need not be repeated here for the…