Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Jones

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided February 17, 1989No. 87-999PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Joseph Glen Jones was convicted of robbery in the first degree, and the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction, without writing an opinion, 524 So.2d 391. This Court granted the writ of certiorari to examine the propriety of the introduction into evidence of Jones's alleged flight from the police. We affirm.

FACTS

The evidence tended to show the following: On November 11, 1986, a lone black male wearing a ski mask robbed the Beeline convenience store in Troy, Alabama. In the cash that the robber obtained was a $2.00 bill used by Beeline to mark the money in the store's cash register.…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. United States v. Larry Allen MyersCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
  3. Hickory v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  4. United States v. Luther Amos BeahmCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1981
  5. United States v. Erwin Edward Ballard, United States of America v. Richard Henry BryanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1992
  2. Travis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1997
  3. State of Iowa v. John Arthur WilsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 2016
  4. Ex Parte ClarkSupreme Court of Alabama · 1998
  5. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2000

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