Robert Byron Jones (1833 – July 20, 1867) was a justice of the

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from April 1, 1865, to July 1, 1866. Born in

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in 1833,''Celebration of the Centenary of the Supreme Court of Louisiana'' (March 1, 1913), in John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart, eds., ''The Louisiana Historical Quarterly'' (1922), p. 120. Jones served in the

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from 1864 to 1865, and was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In 1867, Jones was arrested in

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on a charge of having been implicated in the murder of one Cyrus W. Stauffer. While confined in the military prison in the city, he fell ill with

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, and was released. He died a few hours later, in New Orleans."Death of Judge Jones", ''Baton Rouge Tri-Weekly Gazette and Comet'' (July 25, 1867), p. 3. Jones had a brother who was a doctor who also died of cholera only a few days earlier.

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