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Jones v. State

The trial court properly admitted into evidence an incriminating telephone call the defendant made from jail, as the State showed that the jail recording system accurately recorded phone calls, that the system recorded the defendant's phone call at the time that he made it and that the man in the recording who made the phone call sounded like the defendant.

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Following a jury trial, Antonio Jones was found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony in connection with the shooting death of Akili Stewart.1 On appeal Jones contends that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to support his convictions and that the trial court erred with respect to various evidentiary matters. We affirm.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, the evidence reveals that, on March 28, 2012, Jones and Cory Thomas went to a home on Lee Street in DeKalb County, where Jones had been renting a room. When Jones and Thomas arrived at the home, Stewart and Terry Roach were already there. Jones and Thomas appeared to be high on some sort of drug when they arrived, and stated, while laughing, We turning up, meaning that they were in a hyped up state. Jones sat down on the sofa, but eventually jumped up, pulled out a 9 millimeter handgun, and began laughing and pointing the gun at Stewart. Roach asked Jones what he was doing, and Jones put the gun back into his waistline. However, Jones soon pulled out the gun again and shot Stewart five times, killing him.

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