STATE v. JONES

No. 545A95.

477 S.E.2d 147 (1996)

STATE of North Carolina v. Elwin Aneurin JONES.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General by Daniel F. McLawhorn, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Appellate Defender, Durham, for defendant-appellant.


WHICHARD, Justice.

Defendant was tried noncapitally for the first-degree murder of his estranged wife, Lisa Jones. The jury found defendant guilty as charged. The trial court sentenced him to a mandatory term of life imprisonment.

The evidence presented at trial tended to show that in January 1994, defendant and his wife, Lisa Jones, lived in Richmond, Virginia. They were having marital difficulties, and defendant suffered from severe depression as a result...

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