Murder trial concluded in day five

An Oconee County man has begun serving a 45-year prison term handed down at the end of his lengthy trial in the General Sessions Court.  It took the jury parts of two days to return guilty verdicts in the case of R-L Webb.  He is 65 years old. Webb was convicted of the murder of Gregory Stephen Brock and the burglary of Brock’s home near Westminster.  In a jailhouse interview shortly after his arrest last year, Webb admitted he shot Brock at close range in Brock’s bedroom.  But he maintained that, because of heavy drinking, he could not remember much of what happened the night of August 31-September 1, 2016.  At sentencing, Judge Lawton McIntosh rejected the loss of memory excuse, saying that after the fatal shooting Webb hid in a kudzu patch not far from investigating officers and he later made his way to a Lavonia, Georgia service station, from which the prosecution believes he was attempting to catch a ride to Texas.