Jones v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed Cynthia Jones’s convictions, assuming without deciding that the trial court erred by refusing to instruct the jury on self-defense. The court held that any instructional error was harmless because the evidence supporting self-defense was weak, there was no evidence that Kenneth used a weapon or posed an imminent deadly threat, and Jones’s accident theory and statements undermined self-defense. All Justices concurred.