Jones v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the perpetration of a robbery and after a trial by jury was convicted of murder in the first degrée and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The first contention on this appeal is that the verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence.

To consider this question we must review the evidence most favorable to appellee (the State) which was as follows:

On November 14, 1961, appellant and his brother, Robert A. Jones, were hitchhiking from Chicago to Chattanooga, Tennessee, when sometime after dark they were picked up by the victim, Gerald Shibe, in his 1957 Cadillac…