Lewis v. State

BENHAM, Justice.

Devasko Lewis was found guilty of malice murder and other crimes arising out of the shooting death of Kerry Glenn.1

1. Evidence presented at trial showed that Glenn was shot by Jamarcus Clark, the hit man in a botched murder-for-hire scheme and Lewis’s co-indictee. Lewis hired Clark to murder his trucking business partner, Corey Daniels, over a dispute involving money and the business. Pursuant to the scheme, Clark was also hired to retrieve from the house of Daniels’s mother, Ernestine McGhee, titles to semi-trucks and money that Lewis claimed Daniels owed him. As to motive,…