Lee v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Reginald Travis Lee was convicted by a Chatham County jury of the felony murder of James L. Jones, a professor at Armstrong State College. He received a life sentence and appeals.

The jury was authorized to find the following facts with respect to the defendant’s involvement in the death of Professor Jones. Lee was invited by a friend, Joseph Lawton, Jr., to Jones’ apartment to watch a Sunday afternoon football game and to have a few drinks. Jones was grading papers in his bedroom when he called the defendant in to “finish showing him the rest of the condominium.” Then, according…