Morgan v. State

Hall, Justice.

This is the direct appeal of the conviction and death sentence of Alphonso Morgan, who was convicted in Richmond County Superior Court for the armed robbery, kidnapping and murder of James Gray. Appellant was given a twenty-year sentence for kidnapping, a concurrent life sentence for armed robbery, and the death penalty for murder.

I. Summary of the Evidence

The state presented evidence from which the jury was entitled to find the following:

On August 22,1976, at 11:30 p.m., the victim James *486Gray was driving to his job as night superintendent at the Graniteville Company in South…