Jones v. State

For shooting his wife’s sister Maud Nichols, through the body in a room of a hotel in Tampa, R. Percy Jones was convicted of an assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree and sentenced to a term of five years in the State’s pi’ison.

The only eye-witnesses to the shooting were Jones, his wife and the sister-in-law, but immediately upon hearing the shot and the cries, several other guests of the hotel rushed into the room. In this state of confusion, Jones called first upon the wounded woman and then upon his *81wife to say that the shooting was accidental, hut each in turn denied…