Gore v. State

Nichols, Justice.

Charles D. Gore appeals his convictions for felony murder and escape, for which he received, respectively, sentences of life imprisonment and five years. He was acquitted of malice murder. The state did not seek the death penalty.

The jury heard evidence authorizing the following to be found as facts beyond a reasonable doubt: Gore was an inmate of the Lee Correctional Institution, Leesburg, Georgia. A group of inmates, including Gore, planned to escape while on a work detail. At lunch time, while away from the institution on the work detail, one of the inmates, Issac Graham,…