State v. Gordon

STEPHAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a second degree murder conviction. The defendant, David Gordon, was found guilty by a jury of murdering Larry Jones, and was sentenced in accordance with the verdict to a period of fifty years. We affirm.

On January 6, 1980, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Larry Jones, Darvel King, and two other men stood talking on the street in front of the Cabanne Courts Apartments. A man dressed in a green Eskimo coat walked up to them, pushed King and the others aside and began hitting Jones. The man pushed Jones against a parked truck, pulled out a gun and hit Jones a…