Intent is a mental attitude with which an individual acts, and therefore it cannot ordinarily be directly proved but must be inferred from surrounding facts and circumstances. Intent refers only to the state of mind with which the act is done or omitted. It differs from motive, which is what prompts a person to act or to fail to act.
Derrick Todd Lee has been sentenced to death for the first degree murder of LSU grad student Charlotte Murray Pace. It took the jury that convicted Lee for Pace's murder 93 minutes to unanimously decide Lee's fate. Lee is now at Angola State Penitentiary.
View. comments. Murderer: Shawn Morgan of Senath pleaded guilty Monday to the first-degree murder of three-year-old Breeann Rodriguez in August 2011. A southeast Missouri man was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for abducting and killing his 3-year-old neighbor girl in 2011. Shawn Morgan, of Senath, was handed his sentenced after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, armed criminal action and child kidnapping.