Jones v. State

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from denial of relief in proceeding to set aside judgment of conviction and sentence to life imprisonment, entered on plea of guilty to charge of murder in the first degree. Rules 27.26, 27.25, V.A.M.R.

In July, 1969, Ronald Eugene Jones, then 15 years old, was taken into custody as a juvenile in connection with the shooting to death of an off-duty policeman in a jewelry store holdup. After proceedings in the juvenile court, Jones was charged, by indictment returned in September, 1969, as an adult with murder in the first degree. Jones’s father employed attorneys…