The Paris News

A Lamar County Jury has sentenced Lee Edward Morris to 75 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on two drug charges.

Morris was found guilty Tuesday on charges of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine of more than one gram but less than four grams. He was sentenced to 50 years on that count.

He received a 75-year sentence on the second count of delivery of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone.

Morris will have to spend at least 15 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole.

It took the jury 20 minutes to find him guilty.

Morris already had served one prison sentence and had been charged earlier with aggravated assault, having a deadly weapon in a penal institution, assault and family violence and engaging in organized crime.

He also had a number of misdemeanor convictions for assaulting the mothers of his seven children.

“Obviously the jury recognized what a dangerous individual he was, and that he was a drug dealer who needed to be taken off the streets,” said prosecutor Bill Harris of the Lamar County District Attorney’s office. “The Paris Police narcotics division did a good job in investigating and bringing him to trial.”

Harris was assisted by prosecutor Greg Barber in the trial.

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