Legal Opinion
Lee v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided March 29, 1983No. F-82-13PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CORNISH, Judge:
The appellant, Johnnie Edgar Lee, was convicted in the District Court of Tulsa County, of Murder in the First Degree for the killing of his wife. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Evidence at trial showed that his wife’s corpse was discovered at noon, Saturday, November 22, 1980, in a vacant house from which the couple had recently been evicted. The victim, who suffered a contact gunshot wound to her head, was found lying beneath a blanket on the bedroom floor. Police investigating the scene observed what appeared to be a trail of broken automobile glass, blood, and…
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