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.
Lee was never hung for treason because of General Ulysses Grant and the terms offered to him and accepted at Appottomax Courthouse. Following the war, The New York Times called for Lee to be indicted upon charges of treason for waging war on the United States. Indictments were delivered for Lee, Early, and Longstreet. President Johnson was also an advocate of harsh treatment towards the generals of the rebellion.