Jones v. State

Hines, Justice.

Michael Jones, Jr. appeals his conviction for the malice murder of Rico Allen. Jones challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, the denial of his motion to suppress, the admission of certain out-of-court statements, and the trial court’s instruction to the jury. Finding that none of the alleged errors requires reversal of Jones’s conviction, we affirm.

The State presented evidence that Allen’s body was discovered along a roadside in Richmond County around 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 30, 1995. It appeared that the body had been there ten to twelve hours. The cause of death was…