Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama November 29, 1983, 8 Div. 839 (Jones v. State)

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United States · · · 29-11-1983

HUBERT TAYLOR, Judge.

Appellant, Tommy G. Jones, was convicted of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to fifty years in the penitentiary.

The only issue we will address is whether reversible error occurred when the district attorney commented during closing arguments on Jones’s exercise of his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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