Jones v. State

Pope, Judge.

Defendant Jones was convicted of armed robbery. The evidence at trial showed that two men entered the Waffle House on Wrightsboro Road in Augusta about 4:00 a.m. on February 17, 1988. They ordered two cups of coffee and split a danish roll between them. As they prepared to leave, they asked for two coffees to go. When the waitress returned to the counter with the coffee, the taller of the two men pulled a gun and demanded the money from the register. The other man just stood there. When the taller man got the money, the two men ran from the restaurant. The defendant’s fingerprints…